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Arfa Daily

Jan 1, 1970
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Smitty Two said:
Sounds funny here too - although the reference is archaic it's not one
that goes unnoticed. Poster's remarks were rife with other structure,
grammar and punctuation errors.

There's some interesting linguisic things coming up this week ! I didn't
realise that you used the word "drawers" to mean anything other than its
basic over there, or that the American sense of humour made use of inuendo
or double entendre. Watching American comedy shows over here, and having
visited many times, I'd always thought that your humour was pretty
straightforward. Learn something new every day ! Did you see the reply to
your question about "going down a storm" ?

Arfa
 
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Smitty Two

Jan 1, 1970
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Arfa Daily said:
There's some interesting linguisic things coming up this week ! I didn't
realise that you used the word "drawers" to mean anything other than its
basic over there, or that the American sense of humour made use of inuendo
or double entendre. Watching American comedy shows over here, and having
visited many times, I'd always thought that your humour was pretty
straightforward. Learn something new every day ! Did you see the reply to
your question about "going down a storm" ?

Arfa

99% of American TV shows are dumbed down to about the third-grade toilet
humor level. Pathetic. Innuendo, double entendre are still very much
alive amongst the few people here who are still intelligent enough to
understand subtlety and sophisticated humor. Mine tends to the bone dry
side and I often get blank stares from people. Seems if you're not
laughing at your own joke, others are too stupid to figure out that it
*is* a joke. I think I often offend people on usenet because I refuse to
append the smiley emoticon to my witticisms, and they're too
weak-brained to discern the humor, instead taking offense.

I'll be getting to the other topic presently.
 
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Arfa Daily

Jan 1, 1970
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Smitty Two said:
99% of American TV shows are dumbed down to about the third-grade toilet
humor level. Pathetic. Innuendo, double entendre are still very much
alive amongst the few people here who are still intelligent enough to
understand subtlety and sophisticated humor. Mine tends to the bone dry
side and I often get blank stares from people. Seems if you're not
laughing at your own joke, others are too stupid to figure out that it
*is* a joke. I think I often offend people on usenet because I refuse to
append the smiley emoticon to my witticisms, and they're too
weak-brained to discern the humor, instead taking offense.

I'll be getting to the other topic presently.

I know what you mean, which is why I usually do put the smiley faces. Many
is the time that I have 'put my foot in it' over in your fair land, when I
have made some straight-faced throw-away comment to a person, only to get a
perfectly blank stare back, instead of a "yeah, yeah" grin that I would have
got here. I can't remember exactly what it was now, but last time we were
over in Florida, my wife made some witty comment to a restaurant server that
was somehow linked to his name, and he gave us a look like he thought we
were being really rude to him. I felt compelled to explain the 'joke' to
him, and when he got it, he was in hysterics, and went away muttering stuff
like "boy that's a good one ...!!" I too like dry humour. Some of your
comedy programmes go down really well here, as I'm sure that some of ours do
over there, but I'm equally sure that many of ours that find their way onto
your screens leave a lot of those blank stares behind ... Come to that, they
probably do here, as well ...

Arfa
 
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msg

Jan 1, 1970
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Arfa Daily wrote:

Some of your
comedy programmes go down really well here, as I'm sure that some of ours do
over there...

I sure miss Fawlty Towers; I tried taping the series in one of its 1980's
reairings here (U.S.) on VHS but alas its like watching a blizzard out a
dirty window now. I wonder if there are uncut episodes on DVD?

Do you have any favorite U.S. sitcoms? What do you think of Married with
Children (episodes after 1990 are better) and Two and a Half Men?
I believe there are clearly Brit (or perhaps Continental?) influences in
both of them.

Regards,

Michael
 
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robb

Jan 1, 1970
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Smitty Two said:
Arfa Daily said:
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99% of American TV shows are dumbed down to about the third-grade toilet
humor level. Pathetic. Innuendo, double entendre are still very much
alive amongst the few people here who are still intelligent enough to
understand subtlety and sophisticated humor. Mine tends to the bone dry
side and I often get blank stares from people. Seems if you're not
laughing at your own joke, others are too stupid to figure out that it
*is* a joke. I think I often offend people on usenet because I refuse to
append the smiley emoticon to my witticisms, and they're too
weak-brained to discern the humor, instead taking offense.

I'll be getting to the other topic presently.

don't stop there Smitty2,
almost all American entertainment seems **engineered** and for
what ?
i believe mass market appeal as it is considered a vehicle/means
for selling stuff and making lots of money. Entertainment lost
it's art but every once in a long while some clever entertainment
appears and quickly dies because the few 100s thousands that
watch do not contribute **enough** to the bottom line.

there are plenty of clever people, just too many numbed by the
garbage they let the industry dump into there brains. maybe the
entertainment industry will be the next to fall like the **big
tobacco**. Scientists prove that poor entertainment does reduce
your IQ and dull your wit. Of course there is no law against
dumbing people down but i am sure some class action lawyer is
working on it.

robb
 
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Arfa Daily

Jan 1, 1970
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msg said:
sci.electronics.basics removed from thread

Arfa Daily wrote:



I sure miss Fawlty Towers; I tried taping the series in one of its 1980's
reairings here (U.S.) on VHS but alas its like watching a blizzard out a
dirty window now. I wonder if there are uncut episodes on DVD?

Do you have any favorite U.S. sitcoms? What do you think of Married with
Children (episodes after 1990 are better) and Two and a Half Men?
I believe there are clearly Brit (or perhaps Continental?) influences in
both of them.

Regards,

Michael

I used to love "Married with Children". I don't know the other one. Another
that I used to really like was "Soap" and also "Cheers". Currently, I like
"Scrubs". I think that it is an intelligent blend of humour and serious
message conveyed by humour. Everthing in the first half of the show is
straight comedy, but with a theme leading to the second half, which often
has an underlying sadness. I think a lot of why that show works is the
faultless casting. "Friends" worked for the same reason. Did you ever get to
see the originals of "The Office" with Ricky Gervaise, before it was remade
for your TV using American actors ? Also, did you get to see Ricky in
"Extras" ? Although they were a bit variable in quality, when they were
good, they were superb. The one with Orlando Bloom in, for instance, was
hysterical, particularly the line about Johnny Depp where he said "Willy
Wonka ? Willy Wanka more like ! " The one with David Bowie in, however, I
thought was poor, and sad rather than funny.

As for Fawlty Towers, that gets run and run and run here. They were talking
to Prunella Scales (Sybil Fawlty) on the radio a while back, and I was
really surprised that there was only twelve episodes total. She said that in
some ways, she rued the day that she ever signed up for it as, considering
that there were only 12 episodes, it has defined her whole career in acting.
I also saw an interview with John Cleese and Connie Booth (Polly) who
co-wrote it with him. They said that most episodes were written in no more
than a half hour, and were modified in concept and ad-lib'd a lot during
filming. I would have thought that a lot of it might well be around on the
'net for download with a bit of searching - YouTube perhaps? - but failing
that, I'm sure it would be available from the BBC website, but whether in
NTSC / region 1 format, I don't know. I would have thought that Virgin
Megastores would be a good place to look also, as they carry a lot of stuff
like that over here, and always look to have very similar stocks in the
stores of theirs that I have looked in your side of the pond.

If you want to see some British dry humour with a London East End flavour,
check out on YouTube a programme called "Minder". There are loads of clips
on there, and you will see where my Usenet nic comes from ...

Arfa
 
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Jamie

Jan 1, 1970
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Smitty said:
Sounds funny here too - although the reference is archaic it's not one
that goes unnoticed. Poster's remarks were rife with other structure,
grammar and punctuation errors.

Laugh all you want guys. The tab is on me.

And yes, I can understand you guys over there in England. The language
in the states is full of twisted slang how ever, I do understand the
brothers over here want to reform our language. :)

Who knows, pig Latin in school might be refreshing! It sure would give
the boys in mother England something to talk about, more so than ever.
 
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Arfa Daily

Jan 1, 1970
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Jamie said:
Laugh all you want guys. The tab is on me.

And yes, I can understand you guys over there in England. The language
in the states is full of twisted slang how ever, I do understand the
brothers over here want to reform our language. :)

Who knows, pig Latin in school might be refreshing! It sure would give
the boys in mother England something to talk about, more so than ever.

I took real Latin in secondary school, and over the years, it's proved
really quite useful in working out the meanings of words, as many have a
Latin base. Sadly, the very great majority of government schools no longer
teach it. It has been replaced with other useful subjects like how not to
get pregnant, and making the best use of the social security system if you
do...

Arfa
 
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Michael A. Terrell

Jan 1, 1970
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Arfa said:
I took real Latin in secondary school, and over the years, it's proved
really quite useful in working out the meanings of words, as many have a
Latin base. Sadly, the very great majority of government schools no longer
teach it. It has been replaced with other useful subjects like how not to
get pregnant, and making the best use of the social security system if you
do...


My latin teacher had a bad habit of jumping ahead several chapters,
and asking about material we hadn't covered. I found out she had
ABSOLUTELY no sense of humor when I replied, 'It's all Greek to me'.

My favorite humor is what i call. a 'Stealth Pun". Some people don't
get them for days, or even weeks, then I get a phone call, or a visit
when they get it.


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida
 
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Arfa Daily

Jan 1, 1970
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Michael A. Terrell said:
My latin teacher had a bad habit of jumping ahead several chapters,
and asking about material we hadn't covered. I found out she had
ABSOLUTELY no sense of humor when I replied, 'It's all Greek to me'.

My favorite humor is what i call. a 'Stealth Pun". Some people don't
get them for days, or even weeks, then I get a phone call, or a visit
when they get it.

Nice one ! But I guess we better stop talking about all this stuff now,
before that *other* Michael come screaming around the corner in his police
Noddy-car, to arrest us and throw us into the cyberspace void for off-topic
chatting ... d;~)

Arfa
 
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Michael A. Terrell

Jan 1, 1970
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Arfa said:
Nice one ! But I guess we better stop talking about all this stuff now,
before that *other* Michael come screaming around the corner in his police
Noddy-car, to arrest us and throw us into the cyberspace void for off-topic
chatting ... d;~)


He'd have to find me first. Do you have any idea how many 'Michael
A. Terrell's there are in the US? Or how many have unlisted phone
numbers? ;-)


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida
 
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Michael A. Terrell

Jan 1, 1970
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Michael said:
Or another question.. What is it?


Or where this shop is, so OSHA can shut them down?

--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida
 
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Jamie

Jan 1, 1970
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Michael said:
Or where this shop is, so OSHA can shut them down?
we're allowed to use remaining quantity as long as we have
proper storage for haze mat chemicals. we. do..
end of story.
Just not legal any more to buy it and in the first place it
was a specialty product for industrial use only.

If I remember, i'll get the chemical composition of it this
week in work.
 
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