Re: ``If you don't want it, there are other nations who will''


Ron Hardin wrote:
Peter T. Daniels wrote:

Ron Hardin wrote:
Peter T. Daniels wrote:
It was written by an American (quite possibly Mel Brooks himself) and
spoken by an American in an American spoof of "The Man from
U.N.C.L.E.," which was an American spoof of the earliest James Bond
movies.

It's a combination of James Bond and Inspector Clouseau, which were
both big at the time, suggested by ABC, which sponsored the
pilot and then rejected the series.
On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.

That's really not relevant to the facts I stated.

Be that as it may, it's what Mel Brooks says. They were sending up quality
material, not some TV series junk you might have liked.
On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.

And they were doing it in fully idiomatic English.

If you didn't appreciate "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.," then you were a
jerk even 40+ years ago.

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