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we already enjoy the Britcoms "Are You Being Served" which is just repeated and repeated to our joy. (Are you free?)
"Waiting For God," "To The Manor Born," "As Time Goes By," "Games," (set in Australia) and "The Industry," etc
Are you sure 'Games' is a Britcom? Sound like you might mean 'The Games', which is dinky-di Aussie and nothing to do with the Brits at all. A spoof behind the scenes documentary showing how SOCOG 'organise' the Games. Very funny, but not British.
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The thing about "The Games" (leaving nationalities and borax-poking aside) was how credible the spoof was. The confusion, the conflicting interests, and the way that John Clarke (as the boss) cut through it and continually left himself wide open, had us convulsed week after week. It could have really been set anywhere and still succeeded. 
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Perhaps, but one suspects that had it been set in the Athens Organising Committee, it would have had to have been labelled a documentary rather than a spoof/satire.Hmmm. Point taken. 
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My absolute favourite has to be "crapulent"
Others in regular use include "squiffy", "tight as a newt", "plastered", "arseholed", "tipsy", "pissed as a fart".
Have you heard the phrase "The sun is over the yard arm"? A nautical phrase meaning that one is not allowed to drink until the sun is beginning to set - usually interpreted as 6pm and now corrupted in my family to "The yard is over the arm" meaning "Get the booze out - it's just passed 6 o'clock"
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" SUN OVER THE FOREYARD, Time for drinking in the wardroom. Eight bells in the forenoon watch: mid-day. It is a traditional Naval convention never to drink before the sun clears the foreyard. Unknowing civilians sometimes substitute yardarm in mock-navalese."
One thing that puzzled me. It seems to me that this would mean the ship was travelling east. If it were travelling west, the sun would be high above the stern, not over the foreyard.
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In reply to:
One thing that puzzled me. It seems to me that this would mean the ship was travelling east. If it were travelling west, the sun would be high above the stern, not over the foreyard.
Meaning, it seems, that if the Captain really wanted a drink in the morning, he just needed to order the ship about. Something like the phrase, "Well, it must be noon somewhere."
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Welcome aBoard, Sara! Here's to you, whether it's 6:00,
noon, over the foreyard, yardarm, or the rail.
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Dear sarawhyler: your word "crapulent" reminded me of an old joke, about the guy who told his wife the morning after coming home drunk, that another guy had thrown up on him.To which his wife replied: "Not only that. He also filled your pants." (That's crapulent!).
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