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Old 07-02-2015, 12:25 PM   #85
Carruthers
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce View Post
“I admired the English immensely for all that they had endured, and they were certainly honorable, and stopped their cars for pedestrians, and called you “sir” and “madam,” and so on. But after a week there, I began to feel wild. It was those ruddy English faces, so held in by duty, the sense of “what is done” and “what is not done,” and always swigging tea and chirping, that made me want to scream like a hyena.”

Julia Child, from “My Life in France.”
I admit to swigging tea, but I never chirp.

Well, a chap has his standards, you know.
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