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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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just a denizen of the lower orders of this Sceptred Isle? Boy, stoke my pipe and have it ready for me on the verandah in five minutes.
Abe, as a foreign dignitary, just do everything I do and you'll fit in just fine. If you can practice responding to everything I say with "Well, quite," and "Oh, absolutely," in an accent worthy of Rex Harrison then nobody will notice the difference.
(, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 12:55, 3 replies, latest was 16 years ago)
"Well, well, well" and "Oh, I see" Will that suffice?
(, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 12:58, Reply)
The correct response to "how do you do" is "how do you do". Nothing else is acceptable in polite circles.
Yet another way we sneaky Brits aim to out forrins.
/debretts
(, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 12:59, Reply)
I shall have the quartermaster flog you if you continue to bandy about derogatory remarks in that native dialect of yours!
(, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 13:05, Reply)
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