= Сообщение: 8911 из 12489 ====================================== ENET.SYSOP = От : David Rance 2:203/2 21 Aug 19 10:50:46 Кому : Ward Dossche 21 Aug 19 10:50:46 Тема : What have the Romans ever done for us? FGHI : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:203/2+5d5d05e0 На : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:292/854+0b431b33 = Кодировка сообщения определена как: CP437 ================================== ============================================================================== On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 08:03:46 Ward Dossche -> David Rance wrote:
WD> Sir David,
You honour me, but I don't deserve such honour! ;-)
DR>> All good comedy is based in truth and caricatures the eccentricities and DR>> (dare I say it) stupidities of the people it is mocking. Remember "Yes, DR>> Minister"? And "Father Ted" (don't know if that was exported)? And even DR>> "Goodness, Gracious Me"?
WD> That's an absolute "yes" ... do not forget "Please Sir" ... which at WD> some point wasn't funny because I was at the time in a class "5C".
I never watched that but I do remember that the teacher was played by John Alderton, an actor whom I much admired. But I did forget to mention "Fawlty Towers".
WD> So it makes me wonder what has become of Great Britain if that quality WD> of satire is not produced anymore.
We just don't have that quality of scriptwriter at the moment.
WD> The positive thing however is an aging English teacher traveling back WD> and forth between the British Isles and somewhere in the Calvados WD> region who has succeeded in getting me to re-read my english texts and WD> wondering "what have I written now again I should be ashamed for?"
It pleases me that I have stirred your memory, but I don't think you have much to be ashamed of. I think we all do that as we get older. I shudder at some of the things I have said and written in the past. How did I manage to be so naïve?
Oh dear, I really ought to go and do some work out in the garden and not sit here tied to my computer!
David
-- Formerly ICHTHUS (Reading) UK (1987-2007 R.I.P.) (2:292/854.110) Former sysop writing in retirement from Le Mesnil Villement, Calvados, France
