More Shame for my country.

In article , Herman
Nijland wrote:

Relax Myron,
it could be worse - you could have been British:
http://www.stephaniemiller.com/decla...revocation.htm

I find this cringe-making. I wish Cleese would stick to funny walks

He's also wrong about "ize/ise". The Oxford University Press, Cambridge
University Press and 'The Times' (of London) all use "ize". The Oxford
English Dictionary prefers it.

Lazarus

"Lazarus Cooke" wrote


http://www.stephaniemiller.com/decla...revocation.htm

I find this cringe-making. I wish Cleese would stick to funny walks

He's also wrong about "ize/ise". The Oxford University Press, Cambridge
University Press and 'The Times' (of London) all use "ize". The Oxford
English Dictionary prefers it.

Lazarus

Well..... I too, wish that Cleese, et al would re-band together and produce
more 'funny walks' -type stuff, but in the meantime:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/revocation.asp

Dan

Daniel-San wrote:
"Lazarus Cooke" wrote


http://www.stephaniemiller.com/decla...revocation.htm

I find this cringe-making. I wish Cleese would stick to funny walks

He's also wrong about "ize/ise". The Oxford University Press, Cambridge
University Press and 'The Times' (of London) all use "ize". The Oxford
English Dictionary prefers it.

Lazarus

Well..... I too, wish that Cleese, et al would re-band together and produce
more 'funny walks' -type stuff, but in the meantime:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/revocation.asp

Fascinating! I'm relieved. I shouldn't have taken the attribution for
granted, but Cleese, like many funny entertainers, has a rather solemn
and pompous private persona (unlike his fellow-Python Michael Palin,
whom I spotted recently near me in a cinema in London. He was in front
of me as I left the cinema, and I assumed he'd get a cab or have a car
waiting. To my delight he didn't. He took the same route as I did, down
into Leicester Square Underground (subway) station, where he took the
Northern Line north, and I went south to Brixton).

Even though I occasionally express reserve about some of the more
extreme manifestations of American exuberance, I loathe this kind of
snooty stuff which, of course, emphasizes all the worst qualities of
the British rather than Americans.

Lazarus

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Daniel-San wrote:
"Lazarus Cooke" wrote


http://www.stephaniemiller.com/decla...revocation.htm

I find this cringe-making. I wish Cleese would stick to funny walks

He's also wrong about "ize/ise". The Oxford University Press, Cambridge
University Press and 'The Times' (of London) all use "ize". The Oxford
English Dictionary prefers it.

Lazarus

Well..... I too, wish that Cleese, et al would re-band together and
produce
more 'funny walks' -type stuff, but in the meantime:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/revocation.asp

Fascinating! I'm relieved. I shouldn't have taken the attribution for
granted, but Cleese, like many funny entertainers, has a rather solemn
and pompous private persona (unlike his fellow-Python Michael Palin,
whom I spotted recently near me in a cinema in London. He was in front
of me as I left the cinema, and I assumed he'd get a cab or have a car
waiting. To my delight he didn't. He took the same route as I did, down
into Leicester Square Underground (subway) station, where he took the
Northern Line north, and I went south to Brixton).

Even though I occasionally express reserve about some of the more
extreme manifestations of American exuberance, I loathe this kind of
snooty stuff which, of course, emphasizes all the worst qualities of
the British rather than Americans.

There was a time when cheeky public observations about the character of
their betters emanating from members of a race fit for no more than the
domestic servitude that is their God given lot would have resulted in a good
stout lashing. Ah, for the good old days, wot?

Run along now and see that the dog's dish is properly polished, there's a
good lad.

Wolfgang