| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 983.1 | | AUSSIE::WHORLOW | Bushies do it for FREE! | Thu Jul 02 1992 04:26 | 12 |
| G'day,
I've certainly heard such phraseology....
If Sir would care to walk this way......
(reply under breath - If I could walk that way I wouldn't need the talcum
powder")
dj
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| 983.2 | dated | MARVIN::KNOWLES | Caveat vendor | Thu Jul 02 1992 05:38 | 8 |
| That form is dated, almost obsolete. It was current (in the
English upper classes) when P. G. Wodehouse was writing.
As PGW live and wrote a lot in the US, I suspect he may
have made a big thing of it - just for comic/social effect.
I still hear it in some situations, but I think it's fossilized.
b
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| 983.3 | still in use | VANINE::LOVELL | � l'eau; c'est l'heure | Fri Jul 03 1992 07:53 | 4 |
| Depends on where you shop. I treated myself to an up-market suit in
Savile Row and found tat this format is "de rigeur" in the tailoring
trade.
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| 983.4 | Gone for a Burton | MARVIN::KNOWLES | Caveat vendor | Mon Jul 06 1992 07:11 | 8 |
| Yes - but chiefly the up-market end of that trade (shops that say they're
Gentlemen's Outfitters) and people in lowlier shops who hope to get
jobs further up the pecking order. They don't say `sir' _at_all_
in Top Shop for Men, not even when they're addressing you for the first
time.
b
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| 983.5 | re; Base Note | SNOC02::MASCALL | "Tiddley quid?" dixit Porcellus. | Thu Aug 13 1992 00:53 | 8 |
| Douglas Adams where? Quote your source please. I've read it but can't
remember which one.
Thanks,
Sheridan
(Johnny-Come-Lately)
:^)
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| 983.6 | | HLFS00::STEENWINKEL | R80ST | Thu Aug 13 1992 11:21 | 8 |
| RE:.0,.5
Quote is from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, near the end
of chapter 14 (in my edition it's page 78).
- Rik -
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