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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: British humour #8832 10/25/00 07:40 PM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 M Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel M Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 It is a very British form of humour and one that doesn't always cross the Atlantic too well. Does anybody know why that is? The Britsh love of irony, and "tongue-in-cheek" humour, thrives in most other former colonies, why not among the tea-haters? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted About regimens... shanks 10/23/00 01:10 PM Re: About regimens... xara 10/23/00 01:37 PM Re: About regimens... jmh 10/23/00 01:40 PM Re: About regimens... AnnaStrophic 10/23/00 09:39 PM Re: About regimens... of troy 10/24/00 06:18 PM Re: About regimens... RhubarbCommando 10/25/00 08:39 AM Re: About regimens... FishonaBike 10/25/00 12:06 PM Re: About regimens... of troy 10/25/00 01:41 PM Re: About regimens... RhubarbCommando 10/25/00 01:55 PM Re: About regimens... of troy 10/25/00 02:28 PM Re: About regimens... jmh 10/25/00 03:17 PM Re: About regimens... RhubarbCommando 10/25/00 03:25 PM Re: About regimens... of troy 10/25/00 05:09 PM Re: British humour jmh 10/25/00 06:35 PM Re: British humour Max Quordlepleen 10/25/00 07:40 PM Re: British humour jmh 10/25/00 08:24 PM [i]Au contraire[/i] kind of shanks 10/25/00 10:03 PM Re: [i]Au contraire[/i] kind of Max Quordlepleen 10/25/00 10:42 PM Re: humour jmh 10/26/00 02:18 PM Re: humour Bingley 10/26/00 02:57 PM Re: humour tsuwm 10/26/00 03:06 PM Re: humour jmh 10/26/00 04:33 PM Re: humour Max Quordlepleen 10/26/00 06:16 PM Re: humour FishonaBike 10/26/00 11:52 PM Re: humour Max Quordlepleen 10/27/00 12:03 AM Re: humour AnnaStrophic 10/27/00 12:24 AM Re: humour Max Quordlepleen 10/27/00 12:54 AM Re: humour belMarduk 10/27/00 01:25 AM Re: humour Max Quordlepleen 10/27/00 02:18 AM Re: humour FishonaBike 10/27/00 12:38 PM Re: humour belMarduk 10/28/00 03:10 AM Re: John Cleese tsuwm 10/27/00 02:23 PM Re: 3 stooges tsuwm 10/26/00 03:10 PM Re: humour Jackie 10/26/00 04:08 PM Re: humour jmh 10/26/00 04:35 PM Re: humour shanks 10/27/00 08:10 AM Re: humour paulb 10/27/00 09:11 AM Re: humour shanks 10/27/00 09:41 AM Re: humour paulb 10/28/00 10:49 AM Re: humour Jackie 10/28/00 12:32 PM Re: humour paulb 10/29/00 09:43 AM Re: humour Jackie 10/29/00 01:07 PM Re: humour paulb 10/30/00 10:28 AM Re: humour Jackie 10/30/00 01:26 PM Re: humour RhubarbCommando 10/31/00 01:42 PM Re: humour shanks 10/30/00 09:29 AM Re: [i]Au contraire[/i] kind of Jackie 10/26/00 12:48 AM Re: Au contraire mon frère belMarduk 10/26/00 02:26 AM Re: Au contraire mon frère FishonaBike 10/26/00 01:07 PM Re: [i]Au contraire[/i] kind of Max Quordlepleen 10/26/00 02:33 AM Re: [i]Au contraire[/i] kind of Jackie 10/26/00 02:51 AM Re: [i]Au contraire[/i] kind of maverick 10/26/00 11:42 AM Re: [i]Au contraire[/i] kind of FishonaBike 10/26/00 12:47 PM Re: [i]Au contraire[/i] kind of wsieber 10/27/00 06:30 AM Re: [i]Au contraire[/i] kind of jmh 10/27/00 07:01 AM Alimentary my dear.. FishonaBike 10/27/00 12:03 PM Bush's linguistic facility shanks 10/26/00 01:27 PM Re: Bush's linguistic facility paulb 10/27/00 09:14 AM Re: Bush's linguistic facility Jackie 10/27/00 12:17 PM Re: Bush's linguistic facility TEd Remington 10/27/00 02:22 PM Re: Bush's linguistic facility FishonaBike 10/27/00 07:52 PM Re: empty calories wsieber 10/24/00 05:38 AM Re: empty calories Jackie 10/24/00 10:45 AM Re: empty calories jmh 10/25/00 08:45 AM Re: empty calories RhubarbCommando 10/25/00 08:53 AM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,361 Members9,182 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV 9,182 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 727 guests, and 5 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 35 A C Bowden 22 LukeJavan8 3 ddrinnan 1 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,557 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,919 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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