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 jvmorrisI Am The Man Who Was Not There.Premium,MVM
join:2001-04-03
Reston, VA | reply to wonko3fc
Re: Does England Really Suck more than America? Oh, sir! Now 'elf' is surely some sort of elf, but 'safely', I'm fairly certain must be some sort of troll. 
After only six weeks' absence, I can't recall his name (I really hate that), but you've got at least one satirist in one of the major daily rags who also draws. Still, I've never seen the representation of elf and safely that I keep hoping for.
Still, you have a point here. With the exception of the Daily Show (Jon Stewart), the Colbert Report, and the occasional zinger from Olbermann on Countdown, we're long past the heyday of satire and irony here in the US (too complex for most of us these days, I suspect). We've got no new Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, Tim Lehrer and TW3 is, alas, long gone. More's the pity. I think George Carlin tries, but he's getting on a bit these days. The snappy, clever dialog from films of the 30s and 40s is also long gone. Christ, (pardon my French), we don't even have a Pubmaster! 
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Joseph V. Morris | |
 wonko3fcVerbum sat sapienti
join:2001-06-02
UK
1 edit | "Elf & Safely" very good like "Darby & Joan" no doubt?
Oh Wikipedia is busy off the back of these threads isn't it? Bung in another couple of Blades Dave, DSLReports is active again....
Addendum: I just realised Blades are a bit old fasioned these days...Esp for this forum... Dave! Scrub the blades, spin up a couple of additional VM's mate! | |
jvmorrisI Am The Man Who Was Not There.Premium,MVM
join:2001-04-03
Reston, VA | Oh, quit pushing me, willya?
The only reason I understood nemo's reference to 'Cockney rhyming slang' was due to a Dick Francis novel that I must have first read about 20 years ago! (I tend to re-read them fairly often, along with Arthur Conan Doyle, Raymond Chandler, and Dashiel Hammett.)
The only way I'll ever pick up on most of this stuff is if the Home Office gets off my butt and lets me visit my wife in England regularly with no hassle (something that does not appear to currently be on their agenda, as long as they can collect some more revenues for allowing me this 'privilege'.)
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Joseph V. Morris | |
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