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England.

How quaint!

I’m sorry, but in this as in so many things, we are so much farther along.

Plus they’re missing a whole world of guns.

Margaret Soltan, July 20, 2015 8:41AM
Posted in: sport

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4 Responses to “England.”

  1. tony grafton Says:

    Owen Chadwick, the great Cambridge church historian who just died, aged 99, as an undergraduate “was captain of the university [rugby] team, but his career was almost wrecked by their drunken violence and vandalism on a train. He was in danger of being sent down, and the incident was one that he would never talk about: it remained a deeply painful memory.” These practices are not just quaint, they’re venerable.

    http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/19/the-rev-owen-chadwick

  2. Margaret Soltan Says:

    tony: LOL.

  3. John R Says:

    “Bottled, was he?” Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman’s sympathy for alcoholic excess. “Oh, well, can’t judge a fellow by what he does when he’s drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a certain utensil – well – well, nevermind.”
    ― Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library

  4. Margaret Soltan Says:

    John R: Love it.

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