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if i remember correctly the term "spanner" comes from the whole "spastic" / "spakker" thing too.. The Young Ones writers wanted to have them calling each other spackers in the script but obviously they just couldn't, so came up with spanner so the kids would know what they meant..
This is the Rik Mayall thing, not the Cliff thing.