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- From: rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu (Rao Akella)
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- Subject: Re: Masterpiece Theater on PBS
- Keywords: Birmingham, Broadcast
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 00:21:00 GMT
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- In article <Jan24.191908.27594@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>, kannan@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Kannan Subramanian) writes:
- >
- > You mean Captain Biggar, who habitually looks rhinoceri in their eye, while
- > strolling through their backyard as it were, and makes them wilt.
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- If you actually mean Capt. Cuthbert Gervase Brabazon-Biggar, then you probably
- know the answer to this:
- Who's bigger? Mister Biggar or Master Biggar?
-
- (answer after the form-feed -- hope the dashed thing works...)
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- Master Biggar, because he's a little Biggar.
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- :-)
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- In a similar vein, anyone remember the context of "the Major is a miner and the
- minor is a Major?" I seem to remember it's either Galahad or Fred, Lord
- Ickenham, trying to put a fast one over somebody...one of the classics.
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- -- Rao Akella <rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu, rao%moose@umnacvx.bitnet>
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