1 Dec 2008
Mary Jackson
there is something vulgar, immature, and redolent of English boarding school humour about it all.
And that's a bad thing?
If the English had not been so screwed up and sniggery about sex, we would not have produced the best comedy in the world. (See my post here.) We could, of course, be like the Swedes - happy with our sexuality and devoid of hang-ups. And deeply, deeply dull.
Anyway, great article!
2 Dec 2008
reactionry
And The Wife Shall Cleave Unto Her Cleese
Sniggery, diggery,
Dock and Doris,
It doth figurey:
Don't stampede the Wife's.......
Mary:
Decriminalization of sex has arguably, and to an extent, unfortunatley, led to some demystification and desniggering as might be inferred from this statement by Queen's College Professor Ben Butley:
"Of course, they’re almost vanished anyway, the old-style queens and queers, the poofs, the fairies. Ah, the very words seem to conjure up a magical world of naughty thrills and forbidden fruits -- sorry. See, I used to enjoy them enjoying themselves, their varied performances contributed to my life’s varieties, but now the law, in making them safe, has made them drab, just like the heterosexual rest of us."
Holland, wot with its gaudy sex for sale and on display, lies about halfway betwixt the Brits and the dull "I Am No Longer Curious (Yellow)" tow-headed Swedes, and its language, De Fryske Tael, as noted by Geipel on pages 164-5 of The Europeans, is "..the closest living continental relative of English (a fact recognized in the old Yorkshire couplet:
Bread, butter, ale and cheese
Is good Halifax and good Cleese)"
Said Headmaster has given us a classroom demonstration that the modern boarding school can make anything seem drab and deeply, deeply dull:
