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Bogeman Joke Book and British Culture

hplikelikehplikelike
edited August 2009 in Wallace & Gromit
I told an English teacher one of the jokes from the joke book, and she got really excited about me starting with "I say I say I say," because apparently that's how many people start a joke and it happens in a play we're about to read.

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  • LeatherJacketsLeatherJackets
    edited August 2009
    That wouldn't happen to be The Importance of Being Earnest, would it? :rolleyes:
  • ScottyScotty
    edited August 2009
    Was a time-honoured way of starting a joke sequence between a pair of music-hall comedians back in the distant past.

    As in:

    I say, I say, I say, my dog has no nose.

    How does he smell?

    Terrible.
  • hplikelikehplikelike
    edited August 2009
    LeatherJackets wrote: »
    That wouldn't happen to be The Importance of Being Earnest, would it? :rolleyes:

    I think it is. She mentioned that.
  • hansschmuckerhansschmucker
    edited August 2009
    Just out of curiosity, having never read the play, why do you think of The Importance of Being Earnest when somebody mentions "I say, I say, ...."? Couldn't find it in the play at all
  • LeatherJacketsLeatherJackets
    edited August 2009
    Because 'I say, I say, I say...' is an awful contrived piece of old British culture and The Importance of Being Earnest was just awful and contrived.
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