Walking stick Asian, made of bamboo, also a riding crop. Such a stick was owned by Charlie Chaplin's character The Tramp. Malacca – Malay stick made of rattan palms. Pike Staff – Pointed at the end for slippery surfaces. Scout staff – Tall stick traditionally carried by Boy Scouts, which has a number of uses in an emergency Waddy – Australian Aboriginal walking stick or war club, about one metre in length, sometimes with a stone head affixed with string and beeswax. Ziegenhainer – Knotty German stick, made from European cornel, also used as a melee weapon by a duellist's second. The
A Poke in the Eye (With a Sharp Stick) to the film release of "A Poke In The Eye (With A Sharp Stick)", the first of the Amnesty International comedy benefit galas. The show was performed at Her Majesty's Theatre, London, and the title is a play on the phrase "at Her Majesty's pleasure". In America, the film was originally called "Monty Python Meets Beyond the Fringe". The film consists of both on-stage and back-stage footage, taken from all three nights of the run (1 –3 April 1976). Luff and Lewis collaborated on producing the successor show - video-taped in 1977 as "The Mermaid Frolics". Then Cleese and Lewis