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Quite Gormless, Old Bean!

Posted by Christopher Waldrop

May 23, 2008 |

The other morning on the radio I was barely listening to a report about a special by-election in the British district of Crewe and Nantwich, but senior Labour Party member Frank Dobson immediately grabbed my attention when he referred to the Conservative Party candidate as a “flibbertigibbet toff”. First of all, I’d like to apologize to Mr. Dobson if I’ve misspelled the term; my spell-checker had trouble with “flibbertigibbet”, which I was pretty sure had a “y” in it. Secondly, while there’s some debate about “playing the ‘toff’ card”, I’m all for it. I could care less how the election turns out, but what’s important is that I just don’t hear expressions like “flibbertigibbet toff” on the radio often enough. It might be easier to wake up in the mornings if I got gob-smacked by political opponents accusing each other of being dandies or fops or twee or slags or prats or members of the green welly brigade who don’t have the goolies to sod off. If one candidate were to come out and call his or her opponent a coxcomb or “a right proper popinjay” I might think twice about voting for, well, the person who said it. Call me long in the tooth or a naff git or just a duffer but that’s the way I see it.


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