�us cw�� John Wilkins:

Tiny Bulcher <alycidon9@btinternet.com> wrote:

?us cw�> Mike Dworetsky:

"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.

I really like you, Tiny.

Um, that's nice to know. And, I'm sure you are quite my favourite 
Australian filopsoper. Now stop hitting on me or people will talk.

(I wish publishers liked me as much).