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   From: rabrabbjb@yahoo.com   
      
   On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:59:31 -0800, Hen Hanna    
   wrote:   
      
   >   
   >I have 2 questions about this episode   
   >[Upstairs, Downstairs] "Your Obedient Servant" (some info attached at   
   >the end)   
   >   
   >(BTW, Great episode.  Hudson's is too perfect in other episodes.)   
   >   
   >   
   >1. Hudson expresses regret for his pretending to be upper-class, as   
   >"I tred to [ache, egg?] my betters."   
   >I don't know this expression.  What's this verb?   
      
   "Ape", to imitate without understanding, as an ape or monkey would.   
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   >   
   >2. Back from Spinelli's, Hudson says the lunch at the posh restaurant   
   >was not so great.   
   >   
   >Mrs. Bridges's cooking is better.   A waiter had a gravy stain on his   
   >chest.   
   >   
   >One waiter ("probably a foreigner") even [ran, rang?].   
   >   
   >(Mrs. Bridges gasps in reaction.)   
   >   
   >What's this verb?  What did this ill-mannered waiter do?   
      
   "Ran". A good waiter never appears rushed and certainly would never   
   -run-.   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)