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- From: krishnam@math.vt.edu (Ravi Krishnamurthy)
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- Subject: Re: Masterpiece Theater on PBS
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 02:08:22 GMT
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- In-reply-to: rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu's message of 25 Jan 93 00:21:00 GMT
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- In article <C1Dvn1.93w@news2.cis.umn.edu> rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu (Rao Akella) writes:
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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.
-
- Ah, one of the masters' best. It's from Uncle Dynamite:
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- The conversation is between Constable Potter and Uncle Fred (who is
- impersonating as Major Brabazon Plank). Here it goes...
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- Lord Ickenham laughed amusedly.
- "Just a slip of the tongue, such as so often occurs. He meant
- Brabazon-Plank, major. As opposed to my brother, who, being younger than
- me, is, of course, Brabazon-Plank, minor. I can understand you being
- confused," said Lord Ickenham with a commiserating glance at the officer,
- into whose face had crept the boiled look of one who finds the conversation
- becoming too abstruse. Three kippers, four eggs and half a loaf of bread,
- while nourishing the body, take the keen edge of the mental powers. "And
- what renders it all the more complex is that as I myself as a mining
- engineer by profession, anyone who wants to get straight on the
- Brabazon-Plank situation has got to keep steadily before him the fact that
- the minor is a major and the major a miner. I have known strong men to
- break down on realizing this. So you know my minor, the major, do you?....
-
- Ravi
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