Goodness Gracious Me - Going out for an English
I am going to be very self-conscious the next time I go out for Indian food.
Bwooop!
The trio vs. the pirate-ladyman Recently lis opined that no native Utard remembers Lighthouse 20, the kid show that was broadcast on UHF channel 20. Now I have a slight dispute with lis, in that I remember the pirate on the show was played by a woman, and she recalls someone very different (a man, I presume). Now Lighthouse 20 was not by any means my favorite show (hell I think it replaced Gillagan's Island!), but I do remember it--not really fondly but I remember it. The real purpose of my writing is that I made the comparison of Lighthouse 20 to Hotel Balderdash--a show that apparently ran for 10 years on channel four here in SLC. Now this show was the bomb; not only did it start at 6:00 am 6:45 am and show nothing but 30's-late 40's Warner Brothers cartoons (you know, Bugs and Daffy, but not Porky Pig and certainly not that crap WB churned out from the 50s onward.) These cartoons, of course, were made for adults and the humor was mostly sophisticated in a slapstick kind...
Hilarious--thanks I needed a laugh this morning.
ReplyDeleteAnd yeah I too will feel a bit self-conscious: the colonization of exotic foods.
I love that in England they say "go for a curry." But I wanted to have Thai food tonight. Is that still okay? I promise not to order too much food nor to mispronounce the names of the dishes.
ReplyDeleteI think my favorite line is "Oh get something a little bland!"
ReplyDeleteAnyway, Dr. Write, when I go for Thai, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese or, sometimes, Japanese, I tend to point at the menu rather than slaughtering the actual name of the dish. Thank God for numbers next to dishes.
Finally, I see it and it makes me laugh. I liked all the section about blandness, but also the 24 plates of chips, because friends, in the U.K. chips go with everything.
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