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   SKID-DAT-DE-DAT to Martha Bridegam   
   Re: Swearing is both big and clever   
   12 Jan 06 01:57:11   
   
   From: GHYUCBYEBCYUBDILBCHBCHBCICBHYICBHYWIBC@NDHNX.COV   
      
   "Martha Bridegam"  wrote in message   
   news:U%exf.64$H71.59@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com...   
   > SKID-DAT-DE-DAT wrote:   
   > > "Martha Bridegam"  wrote in message   
   > > news:e1Ywf.57983$q%.23648@newssvr12.news.prodigy.com...   
   > >   
   > >>...and so when he said that that Graham Greene's and   
   > >>   
   > >>>Evelyn Waugh's books contained no material of that sort I had to   
   correct   
   > >   
   > > him   
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   > >>>and of course prove that the n-word was different to the f-word in   
   > >>>pre-cultural revolution Britain....   
   > >>   
   > >>I read *Decline and Fall* on a plane last month. Not sure   
   > >>any number of added or subtracted rude words would help it.   
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   > >   
   > >   
   > > Didn't you like it?   
   > >   
   > > ROBBIE   
   > >   
   > >   
   >   
   > I think I laughed out loud twice, so not a wasted   
   > experience, but it's very first novel-y.   
      
   Fank gawd for that kind of fuck-it-ness, I say: you'll be telling me next   
   you prefer Brideshead...   
      
      
   ROBBIE   
      
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