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"John Wilkins" <j.wilkins1@uq.edu.au> wrote in message
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Tiny Bulcher <alycidon9@btinternet.com> wrote:

<soaps overloading the grid>

I thought it was the commercial break in /Coronation Street/ that
was the main offender?

Not for many years. But I am disappointed that Brits still watch East
Enders, and not, say, Cobbers...

Neighbours is broadcast regularly in the UK.  We haven't seen
"Cobbers".[query: existence]?

Bulcher's Second Law of T.O.: any cultural reference you do not 
understand will be either Terry Pratchett or Monty Python *. In this 
case it is the former, ref. 'Johnny & The Dead', where it is the 
fictional equivalent of 'Neighbours', and watched by everybody. 
Including dead people.

* Unless you are Ray, when it will be a quote from the Bible.