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- From: egev05@castle.ed.ac.uk (B A Page)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Smug Ex-Oxbridge types (we hate 'em)
- Message-ID: <30834@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 19:26:31 GMT
- References: <1993Jan23.043709.17206@netcom.com> <y5Kls*B01@prolix.apana.org.au> <mhart.728001579@blackjack>
- Organization: Edinburgh University Department of Smug Ex-Oxbridge types
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- In article <mhart.728001579@blackjack> mhart@blackjack.dt.navy.mil (Michael Hart) writes:
- >In <y5Kls*B01@prolix.apana.org.au> dac@prolix.apana.org.au (Andrew Clayton) writes:
- >>!Peeve: Playing the 'dictionary' game
-
- >Also sold commercially as "Balderdash".
-
- 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.
-
- *Of which Jeremy is indeed a fine example
-
- **Substitute blunt instrument of your choice
-
- >General!Peeve: games. Love 'em; almost any type.
- > Specially Trivial Pursuit, Outburst, cards (hearts, spades,
- > cribbage, gin), Rummy-O, Uno, and on and on.
-
- Or Bridge.
-
- Babs (Terminal Bridge addict)
-
- P.S. - There will be a prize (unspecified) for the first person who
- spots the blatant hypocrisy in the above post
-