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Post by Don Quixote on Sept 12, 2011 20:57:52 GMT -5
Man, I wish you could still dress like that and not get beaten up.
It was a simpler time. It was a better time.
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Post by Mitchell on Sept 12, 2011 21:45:49 GMT -5
Americans are quick to forget, but without Lafayette, we'd all be speaking. . .
. . .well, English.
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Post by TheNewMads on Sept 12, 2011 21:48:05 GMT -5
"i'm not sthpeaking too yew."
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Post by mummifiedstalin on Sept 13, 2011 23:43:53 GMT -5
"i'm not sthpeaking too yew." I think Blackadder III did the aristocracy satire as well as it's going to get. Let's admit: it's an easy target. In-bred un-sophisticates who operate on pretension without substance. Not hard to ridicule. But Blackadder III turned it around and made it hard to tell who was more absurd: the absurd aristocracy or those who looked up to them, anyway.
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Post by siamesesin on Sept 14, 2011 0:26:27 GMT -5
I think ducks. Ducks are absurd.
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Post by Mitchell on Sept 14, 2011 4:36:23 GMT -5
or those who looked up to them, anyway. This gets my vote. And continues today: witness the latest Royals trip to the US.
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Post by Don Quixote on Sept 14, 2011 20:52:11 GMT -5
... or how much we care about talentless millionaires and/or movie stars.
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Post by Mitchell on Sept 14, 2011 22:27:44 GMT -5
Except that aristocracy defines class. . .hollywood dilholes have none of that.
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Post by siamesesin on Sept 15, 2011 1:34:54 GMT -5
I should stop reading that book about the bad behavior of European nobility then. Madness, fratricide, dating Germans voluntarily, etc. It must all be lies.
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Post by Mitchell on Sept 15, 2011 1:51:52 GMT -5
OK, you got me back for my dickweed Daniel Craig post
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Post by Ratso on Sept 15, 2011 11:48:44 GMT -5
Americans are quick to forget, but without Lafayette, we'd all be speaking. . . . . .well, English. Lafayette was a badass. That's why he could dress like that.
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Post by Crowfan on Sept 15, 2011 15:52:44 GMT -5
Americans are quick to forget, but without Lafayette, we'd all be speaking. . . . . .well, English. Lafayette was a badass. That's why he could dress like that. Guess it's also why he's got a city named after him.
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Post by mummifiedstalin on Sept 15, 2011 17:55:32 GMT -5
Lafayette was a badass. That's why he could dress like that. Guess it's also why he's got a city named after him. Shitty city, though.
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Post by siamesesin on Sept 15, 2011 21:11:19 GMT -5
People who live in Chicago's arsehole shouldn't throw stones.
It'll bruise the entry and ruin your Saturday night.
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