I laughed.
Bill
On 08/11/2012, at 3:51 AM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I sort of recall them being on sale in the bookshops here, but never knew anyone who actually read them. This was some time ago....
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> Funny? Who thought so...?
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> Doug
> On 2012-11-07, at 6:20 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> I don't find them very funny myself and don't know any who does
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>> There is a film from many years ago -- mid century - that was mildly
>> amusing with Ian Carmichael I think and Alastair Simm
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>> I have an occasional liking for Simm, and that may be an
>> Englishperson's response, but...
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>> It's all largely an oddity to me
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>>
>>
>> L
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics"
>> To:
>> Cc:
>> Sent:Wed, 7 Nov 2012 16:58:12 +1100
>> Subject:Re: pat snap _-=*_-=*_-=*
>>
>> Am I right in thinking that Stephen Potter and his Lifemanship books
>> are enjoyed mainly within the British Isles, and that Americans,
>> Canadians, Australians…would not find him and them very funny?
>>
>> M Richards
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>> On 07/11/2012, at 1:34 PM, Bill Wootton wrote:
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>>> Hope the dire results were not ingested, Patrick. For miasmatically
>> you can certainly claim coinage; spontaneously, I note in a recent
>> acquisition from one M Richards, was a memorable signing off flourish
>> mentioned by Stephen Potter in Lifemanship, as in Yours spontaneously.
>>>
>>> Cheers, Bill
>>>
>>> On 07/11/2012, at 11:18 AM, Patrick McManus wrote:
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>>>> FRIDGE
>>>>
>>>> his fridge
>>>> poetry fridge
>>>> had sadly
>>>> spontaneously
>>>> defrosted itself!
>>>> with the direst
>>>> results imaginable
>>>> and the contents
>>>> have definitely
>>>> miasmatically
>>>> gone off!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> pmcmanus
>>>> r213
>>>> I just love miasmatically!!
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