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- From: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: Smug Ex-Oxbridge types (we hate 'em)
- Message-ID: <930127.122050.9P5.rusnews.w165w@mantis.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 12:20:50 GMT
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- egev05@castle.ed.ac.uk (B A Page) writes:
- > Or on British TV as a nauseatingly smug game-show entitled "Call My
- > Bluff". This involved lots of smartarse Ex-Oxbridge types (Frank Muir et
- > al) pontificating about their knowledge of the English language and
- > generally leaving the audience with a feeling that they would like to
- > stuff the microphone up the bottoms of all the participants.
-
- I saw "Call My Bluff" one week. One of the amazingly obscure mystery words
- was "Breezeblock".
-
- "Jesus Christ," I thought, "You mean none of these arseholes have ever seen a
- breezeblock? Shit. Maybe the next word will be something really tricky,
- like 'brick' or 'cement'."
-
- "Frank?"
-
- "Cement -- or ke-mont as it's called -- is a traditional French cold soup
- made from pureed snails. It's a delicacy amongst the more fashionable
- restaurants which I visit in Paris."
-
- > P.S. - There will be a prize (unspecified) for the first person who
- > spots the blatant hypocrisy in the above post
-
- Let me guess -- you went to the University. Or perhaps you went to Oxford.
-
-
- mathew
-