>>>>>>>I was just catching up on some New Yorker reading before falling asleep and this knocked me out. Wow. It's by the English writer Zadie Smith.
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>>>>>>>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/12/22/081222fa_fact_smith
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>>>>>>Don't understand what it's about, who could care less about this family's comedy viewing, how you know half of them, and what knocked you out.
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>>>>>Frankly, I enjoyed the article a lot. I remember Tony Hancock and loved his show. Although, I have to admit I didn't care for Fawlty Towers at all - far too much screaming and running around for me.
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>>>>Didn't care for that snarling oaf, Hancock, but FT is an all-time comedy classic series which, although only a handful written, one can watch over and over and still find them funny - like "Allo, Allo" (although many series produced) and "Father Ted".
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>>>>>What's to understand? It's one person's reminiscence, not Joyce's Ulysses for Pete's sake.
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>>>>Aye, but why should we give a toss about them? Just scanning the article I perceived a list of the guy's preferred comedy show. So what? I thought and moved on. I could write a list of my comedy preferences. Who'd be interested in that?
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>>>That is really not an accurate summary of the article. I see in another post that you only read the first paragraphs. It's OK, though. People don't have to agree with me.
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>>OK, last word on this: I was asking what the point of the citation was, as I couldn't see it, as explained above. Not necessarily disagreeing with you, as you hadn't made an assertion.
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>>BTW, never heard of Zadie Smith either.
>>And despite what Popeye says, you may post whatever you wish. :-)
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>She's one of your most prominent and most praised young novelists.
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>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zadie_Smith

Aye, well I figured that, esp. as you knew about her, and I could just as easily have looked her up on the Web, but I couldn't be arsed. I just said that I'd never heard of her. :-)