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- From: mickw@autodesk.com (Mick Washbrook)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Can anyone tell me about this TV show?
- Keywords: Are You Being Served?
- Message-ID: <17948@autodesk.COM>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 21:50:36 GMT
- References: <1992Nov10.130725.22886@lloyd.Camex.COM> <1992Nov15.235857.16298@spdcc.com>
- Sender: news@Autodesk.COM
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- In article <1992Nov15.235857.16298@spdcc.com>, dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:
- >
- > Well, yes, but the character seems to be written with a fair amount of
- > dignity, and he's usually portrayed as superior to the others. I find the
- > show lacking in overt homophobia, though his foibles and characteristics
- > are lampooned as much as the others. I think he's a rather endearing
- > character, even if he is a caricature of a stereotype.
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- "Dignity"? DIGNITY??
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- At what point when the audience laughs at the silly little poofter does
- his dignity reach its zenith? Are you sure we're watching the same program?
- Still, the BBC has been known to scrape much deeper into the barrel for
- its laughs: "It Ain't 'Alf Hot, Mum" thrusts itself into mind. Still,
- it did have Windsor Davies in, with his thick, Welsh brogue.
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- Death to all fanatics!!
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- Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
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