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- From: nwbernst@unix.amherst.edu (Neil Bernstein)
- Subject: Re: Masterpiece Theater on PBS
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:20:16 GMT
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- Rao Akella (rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu) wrote:
- :
- : 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.
- :
- : 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?
- : Master Biggar, because he's a little Biggar.
- :
- : :-)
- :
- : 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.
-
- And yet people dare to compare trash like "Who promoted Major Major?" to this
- fine word-origami of the Master...
- - Neil Bernstein
- Struggling Classics Major
-