It's a time-honoured saying, but what did the actress really say to that proverbial member of the clergy?
Tryst Williams, for the first of an occasional series, went along to a college for trainee vicars in a Cardiff suburb to find out.
"OO-ER vicar, that's a lovely pair of creamy buns you've got there."
This, no doubt, is the kind of saucy remark the majority of people raised on a steady stream of "wink wink nudge nudge" jokes and innuendo-filled
Carry On films would expect when the Western Mail put two actresses, a vicar and a trainee vicar in a room together for an hour.
Thankfully, the reality couldn't have been further from the truth.
Just as the stereotype about a reporter's glamorous life - rushing from an interview with Kylie to bag another Watergate
- isn't quite the whole picture, a meeting of actresses and would-be bishops failed to produce one Frankie Howerd-esque
eyebrow-raising moment, a single "titter-ye-not" and there wasn't a double-entendre in sight.
But the one thing I wouldn't have bargained on when I was sent to St Michael's College in Llandaff on
a damp afternoon was a radical mix of Metallica-loving, wise-cracking, Gavin Henson-worshipping, Blair-hating individuals.
Oh, and while we're on the subject of stereotype-busting, who do you think it was more difficult to get hold of when
explaining the latest barmy newsdesk plan of trying to get vicars and actresses together for the sole purposes of
using the headline "As the actress said to the bishop"? Actresses, not normally known to eschew a bit of free
publicity, or those retiring, conservative types - vicars? Let's just say it came as a surprise to me.
Despite the reticence of a whole cast of other thespians, those nice folk at Theatr Iolo finally came to the rescue
with actresses Carri Munn, 31, from Cardiff, and Anna Joseph, 26, of Llantrisant, both fresh from giving a performance of The Flock at Barry Boys School.
Shoring up the other side of the discussion was churches liaison officer for the National Assembly Aled Edwards,
47, originally from Trawsfynydd and now living in Cilfynydd, and trainee vicar - or ordinand - Zoe King, 32, from Caerphilly.
