Re: Best/Worst American Accents By Brits

On May 28, 12:01 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On May 28, 2:25 pm, mb <azyth...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On May 28, 9:06 am, "Peter T. Daniels"

...

Couldn't stand that, tried it a couple of times.
Wooster or House?
Jeeves.
House is ok

PGW hater... figures! I could have predicted that one.

Maybe some day I'll get around to trying to read one of the "novels."
Are you in the habit of judging authors by their TV adaptations?

They weren't half bad, these ones. I only watched them last month on
you tube, and they check with most of what my mind's eye sees while
reading it.

Though the utter absurdity of his wartime situation (when he had _no
idea_ he was broadcasting wartime Nazi propaganda) and after (exiled
from Britain, he continued to churn out Edwardian fantasies from Long
Island, NY, for decades; his contributions to the Broadway musical
have turned out to be pretty negligible) suggest that there are
probably better writers of his ilk to explore.

Facts are as stated, but conclusions re the contents of his production
and the availability of better writers for what the aficionado gets
from PGW are wrong (except for the occasional dud like "French
Leave"). One pre-requisite to appreciate it remains a taste for
irrelevant absurdity, disconnected from the present or even from the
time it was written. Waugh half-tried, others tried, no dice.

Have you heard of Jerome K. Jerome?

Not comparable at all (too serious, for one thing; in fact quasi-
funereal).
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