File:Stanley Baxter as Macallariat, 1972.jpg
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Way back in 1972, Scottish comedian Stanley Baxter (who I recall from childhood only ever seemed to be on once a year, at Christmas) invented a one-off character for a sketch. specifically, he dragged up to play his conception of the old Scottish spinster postmistress, childless, unmarried, in her fifties, prudish, sniffily dissapproving of everything and everybody, and a person you would be abjectly, miserably, scared of offending lest her dissaproval be turned on you.
Reminds you of anybody?
I've just watched a BBc documentary about Baxter's life and work; it played excerpts from this sketch. and suddenly she was there on screen, right down to the clumpy great sensible shoes and the hanky up the sleeve.
Miss Iodine Maccalariat, who will now forever have one of THOSE genteel-sounding Scottish accents.
Screen capture from the BBC documentary.
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