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Dave, Years ago there was a silly but great cartoon in - i think - Publie eye where it had this dull-looking (british) couple sitting at a table in a posh restaurant.
On the table was a sign that said RESERVED.
In front of her was a sign that said RETICENT
and in front of him a sign that said TACITURN.
It made me laugh.
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Dave, Years ago there was a silly but great cartoon in - i think - Publie eye where it had this dull-looking (british) couple sitting at a table in a posh restaurant.
On the table was a sign that said RESERVED.
In front of her was a sign that said RETICENT
and in front of him a sign that said TACITURN.
It made me laugh.
Now that's funny, really funny.
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Dave, Years ago there was a silly but great cartoon in - i think - Publie eye where it had this dull-looking (british) couple sitting at a table in a posh restaurant.
On the table was a sign that said RESERVED.
In front of her was a sign that said RETICENT
and in front of him a sign that said TACITURN.
It made me laugh.
Great one! Thanks, Bill.
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Hey, Brits! Do you eat just like they did in "Vanity Fair"? 
For dinner: "Mouton aux navets*," [said] the Bulter gravely..."and the soup is potage de mouton a l'Ecossaise**. The side dishes contain pommes de terr au naturel***, and choufleur a l'Eau****."
*Mutton and turnips
**Mutton soup in the Scottish manner
***Boiled potatoes
****Boiled cauliflower
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Yes i regularly get the butler to have the kitchen prepare me poncey french shit!!
Must dash, old boy, antelopes nibbling the croquet hoops...
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Must dash, old boy, antelopes nibbling the croquet hoops...
Too many tinny words there, old cock. But maybe Gervaise will sing us a song.
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So are all of you Brits titled, or soon to be?*
Is Tall Guy actually Viscount Castletoddy?
When his Uncle Sacheveral dies, will Bill Carson be The Earl of Poncey? 
*That's the stereotype I have in my head about y'all.
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Yes i regularly get the butler to have the kitchen prepare me poncey french shit!!
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You taught me a new word, here, Bill. Maybe not one of your wiser moves!
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The Earl of Poncey? I like that. Yes, when we have Lord and Lady Melbury over at the summer house for the hunt, i simply must tell them.
Viscount Castletoddy and his Lady wife werent able to make it, theyve got italian architects working on their East wing. They had seven grounds managers working on it last year but the architect dismissed them!
Btw dave, poncey has a few meanings. Its kinda slang for unnecessary posh, or O.T.T poshness. Eg instead of normal breakfast tea they have started to sell all those posh and pretentious ones, like raspberry and echinachea, camomile and lavender, etc etc. We call them Poncey teas!
Also a ponce is someone who not quite steals, but blags stuff. Like someone who never buys cigarettes but is always smoking others' cigarettes A scrounger, but not in a good way like James Garner in Great escape - this type are users, and would blag off their friends as much as they would a stranger in a smoke room or at a bus stop. A taker without conscience. A blagger. A ponce. Not to be trusted. They lose friends because people get fed up with them not paying their way. Hope that makes sense?
Earl of poncey is still funny. I may even change my log on name. 
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Youre welcome!
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Btw dave, poncey has a few meanings. Its kinda slang for unnecessary posh, or O.T.T poshness. Eg instead of normal breakfast tea they have started to sell all those posh and pretentious ones, like raspberry and echinachea, camomile and lavender, etc etc. We call them Poncey teas!
Also a ponce is someone who not quite steals, but blags stuff. Like someone who never buys cigarettes but is always smoking others' cigarettes A scrounger, but not in a good way like James Garner in Great escape - this type are users, and would blag off their friends as much as they would a stranger in a smoke room or at a bus stop. A taker without conscience. A blagger. A ponce. Not to be trusted. They lose friends because people get fed up with them not paying their way. Hope that makes sense?
Earl of poncey is still funny. I may even change my log on name.
Oh, dear. I thought it means "swishy", as in "THIS close to being gay."
In any case, you might still regret teaching me this new word.
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The Earl of Poncey has no problem teaching you brit slang.
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The author describes a woman living in Paris.
"She adopted at once their grace, their liveliness, their manner.
Her husband was stupid certainly - all English are stupid - and, besides, a dull husband at Paris is always a point in a lady's favour."
Vanity Fair (1847)
William Makepeace Thackeray (a Brit!)
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I wouldnt say all. Too many might be more accurate.
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I agree with this. As i was only saying to the lord melbury and his wife at the grouse shooting last weekend at their country estate.
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Yeah we dont recognise London.
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There was the one guy in the Underground terminal station who assisted with the Oyster Card stuff, but other than that it was largely Russians and Arabic peoples there. Plus all the goddamned tourists.