>>>>>BTW, do you lot use the expression "pratt", meaning an "pathetic idiot"? Many people here with the surname Pratt (like the dr in ER) would have it chaged by deed poll.
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>>>>By the same token, if a Texan says to you "Git!" he is asking you to move along, not assessing your character <s>
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>>>I've seen enough westerns to know that :-)
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>>And in meeting the parents of both Texan and English girls I was dating I was exposed to the alternative meanings ... <s>
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>Traditionally, from an old TV sit com (Till Death us do part), there was a Liverpool (Scouse) character, played by Tony Booth (Cherie Blair's dad), who the cockney star, Alf Garnett, used to call "you Scaaaaas git". I've had that all my life :-)
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>That series was exported to the USA and repackaged as "All in the Family" with Archie Bunker for Alf Garnett.

Tony Booth is Tony Blair's father in law ? Cool. ( in Wikipediaing to get a picture found out "His great-great-grandfather Algernon Sydney Booth was the uncle of John Wilkes Booth, the actor who assassinated Abraham Lincoln" ( Dying is easy - Comedy is hard )

Just put the first Til Death DVD on my Netflix list - and then remembered I had also been meaning to add the Brit ( original ) Men Behaving Badly.

Has the American version of The Office become available over there? As a fan of both Gervais and Carrell I'd be curious to see how the American version plays there. I really think they both are brilliant ( though it is interesting a "season" on BBC is six episodes while here it is 22 or 23 so while there are only 12 original episodes of the Brit Office there are 60+ of the American version so far )