joeluke,
Well said, Manning was capable of telling all kinds of jokes, and his audiences were normally from the same roots as himself. The snobs who objected were the usual shrinking violets who probably find themselves in the W.I./Neighbourhood Watch ranks, the Mary Whitehouse/Victor Meldrews of this world. Quite a few have found their way onto AB, actually.
A bit like the PC Brigade who won't anymore accept words like "spastic" or "mongol", but instead seem to find little made up acronyms somehow acceptable, i.e. "ADHD", or sanitised little words like "Autism" which I guess must feel "alright to use" instead of "horrible" words, as described.