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It's so funny to see you discussing 2 our most iconic British TV comedy shows, both with very different humour...yet both as funny on a different level as the other..I still watch both of those shows on re-runs, mrs bucket not so much but I can watch ATGB over and over ..I think I could probably recite the script of most of the episodes word for word by now... anyway mustn't go off topic but I just thought I'd tell you that..:D
 

Josiah said:
Beside being extraordinarily funny, at least for me the reason I watch British sitcoms is that the major characters are mature adults, not the immature 20 somethings that populate US sitcoms.
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O.K., lets see if I can separate myself from the mature adults. My younger son was a dyed in the wool Anglophile. He introduced me to Fawlty Towers, Monty Python, and Black Adder. We shared many a ROFL evening over them. Monty Python and the Holy Grail is still in my top five movies. I await The Holy Hand Grenade.
 

I have to admit I was never a big Monty Python film, but my favourite was Life of Brian, and the best line in it for me was ...

Ex-Leper: Okay, sir, my final offer: half a shekel for an old ex-leper?
Brian: Did you say "ex-leper"?
Ex-Leper: That's right, sir, 16 years behind a veil and proud of it, sir.
Brian: Well, what happened?
Ex-Leper: Oh, cured, sir.
Brian: Cured?
Ex-Leper: Yes sir, bloody miracle, sir. Bless you!
Brian: Who cured you?
Ex-Leper: Jesus did, sir. I was hopping along, minding my own business, all of a sudden, up he comes, cures me! One minute I'm a leper with a trade, next minute my livelihood's gone. Not so much as a by-your-leave! "You're cured, mate." Bloody do-gooder. :D:D


Rowan Atkinson is genius as Blackadder, I loved it.....although I have to say I detested his character Mr Bean with a passion..




Oooh we've veered so much off topic..LOL we'll get told off..
 
Josiah said:
I remember how important my bike was during most of my childhood. The little Ohio town where I now live is ideal for a kid with a bike, but I almost never see a kid on a bike....how strange??
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You know, now that you mention it, I don't see nearly as many kids on bikes as I did a few years ago. A lot of adults, but not that many kids. I think the computer games have sucked them off the streets. That, and many more organized activities. I do see them at the basketball court.
 
ndynt said:
Where was this taken, Josiah ?
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Hi Nona, this picture was taken on Long Lake in the Adirondack Park of upper New York state. I spent every summer of my first 14 years on this lake where my father was the director of a wilderness summer camp. The camp was at the north end of the lake only accessible by boat. As far as I was concerned this was as good as it gets for a boy growing up. The earlier picture of me rowing a boat was on the same lake.
 
Josiah said:
Holly, what do you have against Mr. Bean?

HEY this thread is suppose to be a repository of family pictures. Why don't you start a British sitcom thread Holly?
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errrm it wasn't me who started the discussion about British comedies...and just for the record I did say we were off topic..
 

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