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Thread #144268   Message #3337252
Posted By: MGM·Lion
12-Apr-12 - 11:29 AM
Thread Name: BS: Boat race disrupted...
Subject: RE: BS: Boat race disrupted...
All this about posh gits -- I am reminded of the story Ewan MacColl tells in Journeyman: a young bejeaned couple denounced Ewan & Peggy for singing to a middle-class audience at a concert at the Town Hall at IIRC Portsmouth. Enquiries revealed that the audience was most predominantly of working-class people who considered it mannerly to put on a collar & tie for a Town Hall concert; the denouncing couple were at Oxford.

You know me too, Al. I got the impression you didn't object too strongly to me. But I happen to have been at Cambridge, & to speak more-or-less RP. Does that make me a 'posh git' to be despised on some sort of principle of some sort of equality.

O woe & alack-the-day!.....

~M~