Sadly veteren actress Mollie Sugden died yesterday at the age of 86. Mollie was best known for her character Mrs Slocombe in the 1970s BBC sitcom ‘Are You Being Served?’. Though her passing has caused a minor bit of a stir on Twitter.

One of the running jokes on ‘Are You Being Served?’ was Mrs Slocombes references to her pussy (i.e. her cat!), a classic sexual innuendo misundertanding.

To pay his respects, TV presenter Johnathan Ross left this tweet :

The tag #MrsSlocombesPussy proved to be very popular because of this tweet with lots of Twitter users using it to pay their respects.

Clearly the people who work in the Twitter spam department are not familar with Mollie or ‘Are You Being Served?’ as they promptly banned the tag from the trending topics. I can understand how someone who was not familar with the joke could misintepret the trend as some sort of spam campaign but it does illustrate that the current system is far from perfect.

I will leave you with a classic montage of Mollies classic character Mrs Slocombe and her well known catchphrase. Enjoy