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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