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Article: Is there life after Del Boy?
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 29, 1996
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Del Boy Trotter is big in Croatia. The latest magazine from the
Only Fools And Horses Appreciation Society, based, naturally
enough, in Essex, publishes a letter from a Goran in the ravaged
Balkan state begging to see more of Peckham's finest.
John Sullivan takes a puff on his cigarette and tries to account
for the worldwide success of his creations, Del Boy and Rodney. Why
do two archetypal Sarf London duckers and divers have such
universal resonance? Wouldn't most countries be baffled by the
Peckham patois? Would they understand phrases like "luvvly-jubbly"?
"Wherever you are, you can recognise they're two idiots, Laurel and
Hardy almost," Sullivan muses. "Those kind of people are always ...