Re: CHAT: Obscenity in British comedy,
From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
Date: | Saturday, June 22, 2002, 22:24 |
On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 06:07:37PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> Tim May scripsit:
>
> > Historical note: Johnson, Samuel (1709-84), English lexicographer,
> > writer, critic and conversationalist. Noted particularly for his
> > _Dictionary of the English Language_ (1755).
>
> And frequent quotee by me and B.P. Jonson on this list.
> In fact two ladies congratulated him for leaving out the rude words,
> to which he replied, "Ah, my dears, I see you have been looking for them."
[snip]
LOL!! I've got to figure out how to put that into my sig file :-P
T
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