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#526 2013-10-14 07:51:53

Dudley Clarke
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Re: The English Look...


I came up to see her sometimes.

 

#527 2013-10-14 15:22:16

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A very charming man JH. Does he still live in that quirky little house? 

I used to take visiting American friends to the Sloane Street branch when I lived down that way. JH often did a tour of his kingdom & you'd get to see him. I actually used to leave Americans in there while I popped out to Partridges (their own label champagne was jolly good with one of their roast chickens) and to see a friend in Georgina Van Etzdorph or whatever that place was called. She was a lovely girl. Taught me all about pulse points, she did, and where a lady should apply scent for the best results... Happy memories of sniffing her tits... 'It's alright, it's only Jimmy'... 

On returning to Hackett my American friends were usually transformed into English Gentlemen. Oh how I'd wink at the boys behind the till...

I've never done anything but good. Ever.


What the world needs now is love, sweet love... And a jolly good kick up the harris.

 

#528 2013-10-14 15:39:48

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My greatest joy has always been teaching Americans proper English table manners. It matters and is a big part of the English look.

What else?

Oh - The English haircut: The side parting, the wings, the floppy frontage...

Then there's the English walk... Americans always try to look healthy thinking that that makes them look rich or something. Not so the English. We stoop and walk as if we've just had a bad fall off a horse to display our status.

Good teeth are also associated with being rather common over here.

Old shoes are prized.

Men who wear wedding rings are also deeply suspect. You're not a f*cking woman, take it off.


... These things I know, for G*d made me an Englishman.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPQE3GfkrOo


What the world needs now is love, sweet love... And a jolly good kick up the harris.

 

#529 2013-10-14 16:05:57

formby
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"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin

Souvent me Souvient

 

#530 2013-10-14 16:54:32

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What the world needs now is love, sweet love... And a jolly good kick up the harris.

 

#531 2013-10-14 16:57:18

Dudley Clarke
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Oi - you lot spelling again - 'discreet' means sub rosa or restrained and 'discrete' means separate.


I came up to see her sometimes.

 

#532 2013-10-14 17:14:00

formby
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"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin

Souvent me Souvient

 

#533 2013-10-14 19:14:30

Dudley Clarke
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I came up to see her sometimes.

 

#534 2013-10-14 19:20:07

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I'm with Formbs - Duds lacks his subtlety and so can only parrot a dictionary to try to make a redundantly pointless point.

'Quietly loud' used to be an old expression. No idea where from.

'A whispered scream' comes, I think, from somebody's diaries I once read - He was talking about his ties too...

Best -

Last edited by Topstitcher (2013-10-14 19:22:01)


What the world needs now is love, sweet love... And a jolly good kick up the harris.

 

#535 2013-10-14 20:37:58

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#536 2013-10-15 02:32:15

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Remembered this in the night as I was tossing and turning -

http://www.sanjeev.net/poetry/betjeman-john/on-a-portrait-of-a-deaf-man-182199.html

"The tie, discreetly loud,"


Best -


What the world needs now is love, sweet love... And a jolly good kick up the harris.

 

#537 2013-10-15 03:19:50

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I have just been watching a marvellous training film ('e-learning' in the lingo) on teams.

A South African voice over - which is a first.

The wooden acting is all done by Americans. It is multicultural and the non-white female is always the boss.

There is some confusion until I realise 'Hector is the name of one of the individuals and not an example of bad team behaviours.

Really bad clothes. Double breasted jackets with enormous shoulders. Shirts with crappy collars, terrible ties....


"Florid, smug, middle-aged golf club bore in this country I'd say. Propping up the 19th hole in deepest Surrey bemoaning the perils of immigration."

 

#538 2013-10-15 05:11:39

Dudley Clarke
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I came up to see her sometimes.

 

#539 2013-10-15 05:51:43

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'Hectoring people' - Now that really does take me back. Thank you for reminding me of an old friend. I must use the term more often.

Best -


What the world needs now is love, sweet love... And a jolly good kick up the harris.

 

#540 2013-10-15 06:08:11

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"Florid, smug, middle-aged golf club bore in this country I'd say. Propping up the 19th hole in deepest Surrey bemoaning the perils of immigration."

 

#541 2013-10-15 07:03:40

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If it was a South African film, then by law there are racial quotas each organisation has to fulfil for positions being populated by the right ethnic and gender mix (weighted).


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#542 2013-10-15 07:13:47

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Vibe-Rations in Spectra-Sonic-Sound

 

#543 2013-10-15 07:16:29

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Vibe-Rations in Spectra-Sonic-Sound

 

#544 2013-10-15 07:25:06

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Vibe-Rations in Spectra-Sonic-Sound

 

#545 2013-10-15 08:54:22

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#546 2013-10-15 08:55:36

Dudley Clarke
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I came up to see her sometimes.

 

#547 2013-10-15 09:40:55

Dudley Clarke
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I came up to see her sometimes.

 

#548 2013-10-15 10:15:36

Kingston1an
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Hector of 'Hectors House' was French though they all had Received Pronunciation on British TV.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJMAeuFoxRI


"Florid, smug, middle-aged golf club bore in this country I'd say. Propping up the 19th hole in deepest Surrey bemoaning the perils of immigration."

 

#549 2013-10-15 12:20:32

formby
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"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin

Souvent me Souvient

 

#550 2013-10-15 13:20:43

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Rocking traditional, current and classic Italian Ivy since 2011.

 

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