Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 16:17:20 -0500 (EST)
From: Siddharth Chatterjee <siddhart-AT-mailbox.syr.edu>
Subject: Re: M-I: Are Apes Naughty by Nature (Post #3)




On Fri, 31 Jan 1997, Louis Proyect wrote:

> 2) Costume dramas from England. Now I admire British culture as much as the
> next person, but how can you come up with all that Masterpiece Theater drek?
> When I accidentally turn on the local PBS station in the middle of one of
> those horrible reactionary messes where a guy in a codpiece is chatting to
> some woman in a bodice about the meaning of honour, I want to refight the
> War of Independence and invade the British Isles.
> 
 
Thank you Louis P for this brilliant passage. I have often had
similar feelings while watching British drama (and the cheap and false
morality which underly them) but could never have expressed it in
such a hilarious and compact fashion.




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