Re: VP Cheney's speech mannerisms



mark wrote:
>
> Legend tells of a time when the mysterious hermit Bill Bonde ('by a
> commodius vicus of recirculation') of John.Methuen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> returned briefly from exile to say ...
> > Areff wrote:
> > > FB wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 20:28:27 GMT, Maria Conlon wrote:
> > > >> Surely you jest. The US has more "righties" than one would think from
> > > >> reading AUE.
> > > >
> > > > Which would suggest that those who have read a couple of books at least are
> > > > not republicans.
> > >
> > > Or that a lot of book readers don't post to AUE.
> > >
> > > How about the political implications of an RP accent?
> > >
> > That you'll read the Telegraph and act like Henry Root after he's ate a
> > serial numbered squashed duck.
>
> Um. What?
>
You'd have to have seen Henry Root in France:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/r/rootintoeurope_1299002698.shtml
#begin quote
Root Into Europe
UK, ITV (Aspect for Central), Comedy Serial, Colour, 1992
Starring: George Cole, Pat Heywood

A five-part series that charted a trip around continental Europe by
Henry Root, self-appointed protector of everything British in what, for
him, was the alarmingly liberal and deregulated European Union; the year
of its screening, 1992, was when all remaining trade barriers between EU
member countries were abolished.

The Henry Root character was invented by the writer and one-time
theatrical producer William Donaldson (co-author of the TV series with
its co-producer Mark Chapman). Root sprang to fame as the apparent
author of a barrage of robust letters sent - from his home at 139 Elm
Park Mansions, Park Walk, London SW10 - to the most prominent figures in
British life, the great, the good and the not-so-good but nonetheless
powerful: everyone from the Prime Minister down (or up). These
right-wing, jingoistic missives - imploring the return of capital
punishment, the closing of borders, and more - and the replies they
elicited from their addressees who believed them to be genuine, were
compiled into book form in 1980 as The Henry Root Letters. Although he
assiduously kept his name off the volume - the author's identity and
even the copyright notice were ascribed to Root - Donaldson's cover as
the Root architect was blown when the hilarious book became the number
one UK best-seller that year.

This TV series, the first screen realisation of what Donaldson himself
called 'a quite dreadful man, without a single redeeming quality',
indicated that Root had lost none of his bombastic pomposity or
self-righteousness in the 12 years since being published. (Even if the
substantial royalties had enabled a move from SW10 to leafy Esher.) Root
was, if you like, the barely acceptable face of bigotry - Alf Garnett
made 'respectable' by a little education, a tweed jacket and a tie -
traversing Europe to 'catch the continental at it' as he and his poor
wife Muriel (Henry continually called her 'Mrs Root') investigated
people, places and lifestyles in France, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Germany
and the Netherlands.

Astonishingly blunt, completely oblivious to the fact that his opinions
and rudeness might be alien or offensive to others, and gobsmackingly
ignorant of any other point of view, Root staggered from one disastrous
European situation to another, insulting and misunderstanding with equal
measure. His spectacular faux pas were captured on video by Mrs Root,
for not only had Henry appointed himself the country's European
regulator in a letter to the Prime Minister, he had also written to the
BBC chairman offering a TV series based on his travels with the
camcorder. (The opening episode included cameo roles, as themselves, by
publishing mogul Lord Weidenfeld and the entrepreneur Richard Branson.)


George Cole was the perfect TV encapsulation of the dreadful Root,
sniffily towing his wife (played well by Pat Heywood) around Europe as
he set out to 'know your enemy'. The producers' original plan was to
place the pair among perfect strangers who would be unaware that they
were being filmed, but it soon became obvious that the settings had to
be scripted and bystanders alerted to the situation. Everyone agreed -
the former Palermo mayor included - on the proviso that Root, not they,
would be the only one to appear foolish in the final cut. He most
certainly did.
#end quote
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