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Originally Posted by Hookbill the Goomba
Eomer, you’re a true English gent! All you need is a top hat, a pocket watch, a pipe and a monocle!
Innocently I have all of these.  And wear them as often as I can. And say things like "Jolly good show old boy!" and "What what?" and of course, "Splendid!"
Ah, I know its not doing the stereotypes any favours, but I like the idea that the americans seem to have, that ALL British people without exception, have huge manor houses, drink tea and have butlers. *Rambles off into the distance before being shot with crossbows fired out of cannons* |
Hookbill, I think that may be because all of us across the pond are secretly fantasizing that Lord peter Wimsey really
does exsist and that if we went to England we could find him. That said, I thankfully don't have that image of all British people. My next-door neighbor is English, and he
certainly isn't the Wimsey type. Actually, I didn't even realize that you were British untill the other day. I had somehow decided in my head that you were about 13 and American. Sorry!
08-07-2005, 11:14 AM
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