From: nicky.matthews@btinternet.com   
      
   On Friday, September 12, 2014 3:10:53 PM UTC+1, Bill Swears wrote:   
   > On 9/9/2014 3:01 AM, Jymesion wrote:   
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   > > In context, it's playful-ish. I isolated it to get a focused opinion   
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   > > on whether the image of someone trying to act really suave when he   
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   > > isn't was coming through in that sentence.   
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   > My father used to act like your character when he was among friends who   
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   > knew better, except he called it Swave and Deboner.  He'd get office   
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   > staff jollied up with the clearly playful and intentionally campy act,   
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   > when everybody knew he was going home to the wife, and wasn't even   
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   > trying for anything but a scoffing snort.   
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   > It's trickier to do that, these days.   
      
   It probably depends where you are, but attitudes have changed a lot in the   
   last thirty years. That kind of joking always depended on a shared set of   
   references anyway and I think there are more risks associated with being   
   misunderstood these days.   
      
   Nicky   
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