Re: This is funny for all the wrong reasons



in Fri, 30 Nov 2007 03:32:28 +0000, stevo in hic locum scripsit:

John Burnham <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:07:37 +0000, stevo wrote:


Well of course they were uneducated. They hadn't yet been exposed to the
Benevolent British Imperialists[1] so could not have gone to a proper
school like Oxford or Cambridge.

No, no. Oxford and Cambridge are Universities. If we're talking proper
schools then you want to be mentioning Eton, Harrow, Winchester,
Scunthorpe Secondary Modern....

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