Mary from the Dairy Mary from the Dairy Mary From the Dairy is a comic song made famous by British comedian Max Miller, The Cheeky Chappie, in the 1930s and 1940s. With words by Max Miller, Sam Kern & James Walsh and music by Sam Kern, it became Miller's signature tune, played by the orchestra when he walked on stage. It was a mildly risqué song about Max Miller falling for Mary from the dairy and includes the lines "I don't do things by halves / I'll let you see my calves / and they're not the same shaped calves as Nellie Dean's." Sam
Cheeky Weekly for them). One unusual aspect of "Cheeky Weekly" compared to its contemporaries was that the title character appeared in more than one strip. A typical issue would follow "Cheeky" through the week from Sunday through to the following Saturday in a series of one- or two-page strips. Often not so much a narrative as a series of random gags each episode was designed to lead into the ‘support’ strip which followed. Some notable examples include: On Wednesdays, Cheeky babysat for Baby Burpo, a mischievous child similar to "Whoopee!"’s "Sweeny Toddler". Cheeky would read him a tongue-in-cheek ghost story in the