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Principia Discordia => Apple Talk => Topic started by: The Good Reverend Roger on May 10, 2011, 09:37:23 PM

Title: I will never understand the English.
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on May 10, 2011, 09:37:23 PM
Home 8. Dined and worked. Planning conquest of Iceland for next week. Shall probably be too late! Saw several broods of ducklings. "
—Alexander Cadogan, diary entry for May 4, 1940

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Title: Re: I will never understand the English.
Post by: Suu on May 10, 2011, 09:40:12 PM
What the...
Title: Re: I will never understand the English.
Post by: Luna on May 10, 2011, 09:45:42 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on May 10, 2011, 09:37:23 PM
Home 8. Dined and worked. Planning conquest of Iceland for next week. Shall probably be too late! Saw several broods of ducklings. "
—Alexander Cadogan, diary entry for May 4, 1940

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Didn't believe in wasting words, I suppose.
Title: Re: I will never understand the English.
Post by: Jasper on May 10, 2011, 09:55:47 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on May 10, 2011, 09:37:23 PM
Home 8. Dined and worked. Planning conquest of Iceland for next week. Shall probably be too late! Saw several broods of ducklings. "
—Alexander Cadogan, diary entry for May 4, 1940

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Now that's journal writing. 
Title: Re: I will never understand the English.
Post by: MMIX on May 10, 2011, 10:31:30 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on May 10, 2011, 09:37:23 PM
Home 8. Dined and worked. Planning conquest of Iceland for next week. Shall probably be too late! Saw several broods of ducklings. "
—Alexander Cadogan, diary entry for May 4, 1940

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I'm confused. Do you not have ducklings in the States?
Title: Re: I will never understand the English.
Post by: Richter on May 11, 2011, 03:43:12 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on May 10, 2011, 09:37:23 PM
Home 8. Dined and worked. Planning conquest of Iceland for next week. Shall probably be too late! Saw several broods of ducklings. "
—Alexander Cadogan, diary entry for May 4, 1940

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Translation:

I works too much.  I have grant delusions.  I self defeat!  Natural beauty stirs me, but John Bull attitude and proper speaking quashes it.

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Title: Re: I will never understand the English.
Post by: Sir Squid Diddimus on May 11, 2011, 07:56:35 AM
Home 11:20. Taco Tuesday. Laughed at pollo con banana. Family Guy. Farting.
--Squid, journal entry May 2011
Title: Re: I will never understand the English.
Post by: Dysfunctional Cunt on May 11, 2011, 02:40:31 PM
Quote from: Sir Squid Diddimus on May 11, 2011, 07:56:35 AM
Home 11:20. Taco Tuesday. Laughed at pollo con banana. Family Guy. Farting.
--Squid, journal entry May 2011

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Title: Re: I will never understand the English.
Post by: Cain on May 11, 2011, 02:48:27 PM
Quote from: MMIX on May 10, 2011, 10:31:30 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on May 10, 2011, 09:37:23 PM
Home 8. Dined and worked. Planning conquest of Iceland for next week. Shall probably be too late! Saw several broods of ducklings. "
—Alexander Cadogan, diary entry for May 4, 1940

:lulz:

I'm confused. Do you not have ducklings in the States?

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Title: Re: I will never understand the English.
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on May 11, 2011, 03:21:01 PM
Quote from: Richter on May 11, 2011, 03:43:12 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on May 10, 2011, 09:37:23 PM
Home 8. Dined and worked. Planning conquest of Iceland for next week. Shall probably be too late! Saw several broods of ducklings. "
—Alexander Cadogan, diary entry for May 4, 1940

:lulz:

Translation:

I works too much.  I have grant delusions.  I self defeat!  Natural beauty stirs me, but John Bull attitude and proper speaking quashes it.

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Funny thing:  He really WAS in charge of the invasion of iceland.
Title: Re: I will never understand the English.
Post by: Cain on May 11, 2011, 04:48:48 PM
Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs during the entirety of WWII, if I recall right.  Probably the most powerful British civil servant in modern history.
Title: Re: I will never understand the English.
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on May 11, 2011, 05:13:12 PM
Quote from: Cain on May 11, 2011, 04:48:48 PM
Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs during the entirety of WWII, if I recall right.  Probably the most powerful British civil servant in modern history.

Yep.  And he sat around planning the invasion of a neutral country, imagining (incorrectly) that the Germans were about to beat him to the punch, and took the time to comment on ducklings.

REMEMBER:  There is no military situation so bad that there isn't time for a cuppa and a cucumber sammich.
Title: Re: I will never understand the English.
Post by: Mangrove on May 11, 2011, 05:29:26 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on May 10, 2011, 09:37:23 PM
Home 8. Dined and worked. Planning conquest of Iceland for next week. Shall probably be too late! Saw several broods of ducklings. "
—Alexander Cadogan, diary entry for May 4, 1940

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I had a thought recently that, the way to understand the British sense of humour is to appreciate that they:

a) Exaggerate things of little/no consequence.
b) Greatly downplay things of great importance.
c) Switch between (a) & (b).
d) Add a dash of the surreal.

British comedy is at it's best when it succeeds in striking the right balance between these features.

Title: Re: I will never understand the English.
Post by: Cain on May 11, 2011, 05:29:36 PM
I'm actually tempted to buy his dairies (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Diaries-Sir-Alexander-Cadogan-1938%C2%961945/dp/0571269850) now.  I suspect we are dealing with a unique mind.
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