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2005-07-31 Britain

Crick hits out at call for âBritishnessâ

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Posted by Fred 2005-07-31 10:27|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Can I get some cream puffs with my milk and cookies? Will you brush my hair? Can you read me a story? Oh wait, you did...I forget how it ends - did they all live happily ever after? Or did their flesh evaporate and their wedding rings melt down in a fireball? Did they find any skull fragments embedded in the pretty tiles I remember in the Tube? Please don't hit me. I'll be better. I promise.

Posted by Zpaz 2005-07-31 11:54|| 2005-07-31 11:54|| Front Page Top

#2 I have rights!

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-07-31 13:13|| 2005-07-31 13:13|| Front Page Top

#3 "Of course you have rights. I lie awake every night counting all the rights you have."

- Batman, holding an evildoer out a window about 50 stories up, in The Dark Knight Returns .

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2005-07-31 16:55|| 2005-07-31 16:55|| Front Page Top

#4 I can remember a day when public figures didn't use such language, and certainly not in Britain.

I thought "pissed off" was not native British vernacular. I asked the British boyfriend -- without telling him why I wanted to know -- and as usual he was useless on that score, for he has not lived in Britain for nigh onto twenty years.

"Besides," he said in his toff accent, "we did not associate with the sort of riff-raff who would use such language." Point to Fred.

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