Do the USn's really have a problem with European slang??

i do for one.. when i read Wodehouse, i didn't like it at all.. i didn't get any of the jokes.. its was dull, boring and stupid.

later, there was a bbc series broadcast here (PBS, again) and i watch them. Now, i could see they were funny.. but some of the stuff--especially the golf jokes--(just why are niblic's funny?) made no sense. it was a while before i even figured out a niblic was a nickname for some sort of golf club.


my other obsession