Question re: the Pink PussyCat Club

[RathDarkblade]

...i.e. this one.

I'm just wondering if the name of this club perhaps originates from "Blackadder Goes Forth" - specifically, the episode "Major Star" (in which Blackadder has to organise a concert party, and is - well - not overly fond of Charlie Chaplin films). The first lines of this episode are:

Lieutenant George: You a bit cheesed off, sir?

Captain Blackadder: George, the day the war began I was cheesed off. Within ten minutes of you turning up, I had finished the cheese and moved on to the coffee and cigars, and at this late stage I am in a cab with two lady companions, on my way to the Pink Pussycat in Lower Regent Street.

(...from the IMDB page, naturally).

And if I may digress momentarily for the benefit of the pure-minded and chaste among us (too late, I fear! :doh, I hasten to add that there is yet another (and surely, much tamer) pink pussycat... But I really doubt that Pterry named the Pink PussyCat Club after him, er her, er... it? *shrug*

 

[raisindot]

Rath, I doubt that the Pterry's PP club is a specific reference to Blackadder. That's a very common (and obvious) name for this kind of establishment. Indeed, here in Boston there was a similar venue called The Pussycat Club back in the 60s and 70s, and I'm sure many other such establishments all over the world have used color-based variants of that name, including pink. It's the kind of name used by people who have little imagination.

 

[janet]

Rath, I doubt that the Pterry's PP club is a specific reference to Blackadder. That's a very common (and obvious) name for this kind of establishment. Indeed, here in Boston there was a similar venue called The Pussycat Club back in the 60s and 70s, and I'm sure many other such establishments all over the world have used color-based variants of that name, including pink. It's the kind of name used by people who have little imagination.

Or people who don't get out much.