Re: What are "memes"? nt

From: Paul Burridge (pb_at_notthisbit.osiris1.co.uk)
Date: 09/30/04 

Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 00:39:22 +0100

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 22:44:26 GMT, Joerg
<notthisjoergsch@removethispacbell.net> wrote:

>Well, c'mon. Rowan Atkinson a.k.a. Mr.Bean ain't that bad. I have seen
>some of his movies a dozen times and still can't wait until the next
>time. Whenever we watch it it's continuous ROFL. Best of all, even folks
>whose English skills are poor or non existent get most of the jokes.

Those Mr. Bean shows go out in huge numbers of non English-speaking
countries by virtue of being exclusively visual humour. A lucky or
clever concept by Rowan as he's become stupefyingly rich out of it.

>Then there is stuff like "The 90's Birthday", all in British English but
>for some reason only shown end of December in Germany. Every year,
>religiously. So if you are ever there around New Year's don't miss that
>one. Or have someone send you a tape.

AIUI, Fawlty Towers is popular (or was) in Germany, but they never
released the episode entitled 'The Germans' which is a shame, as it's
actually self-deprecatory towards the Brits and makes us look
seriously *stoopid*. Even John Cleese thought witholding it was daft. 

-- 
"What is now proved was once only imagin'd." - William Blake, 1793.

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