Was the vernacular an intended pun on all this conversation or did you just
use a big word to irritate the dude?

- Pam
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From: "Gabriel Orgrease" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 18:04
Subject: Re: [BP] another totally ridiculous cross-post - what a bunch of
nitwits!!


> Bruce Marcham wrote:
>
> > If he was British he might also be a twit or a tit instead of being a
> > nitwit, n'est pas?
> >
> > When I was in college I had a British friend who would quote from a
> > Monty Python sketch the line "shut your festering gob, you tit."
> >
> > Going to college does benefit one by exposing you to such rich
cultures...
>
> Reading "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers" by Roger Lewis I'm
> fascinated at how deeply Brit vulgar humor goes back to pre-date Monty
> Python to a vernacular tradition of live staged burlesque. For one thing
> that I've picked up, it never ever occured to me that Sellers was a
> Sephardic Jew... one more note as to the richness of cultures and our
> benefit of exposure to them. And there was a radio program that seems to
> have gone on for a long time called, The Goon Show.
>
> ][<
>
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