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Originally posted by charlene:
and in cloakrooms here there is usually an attendant to hang and retrieve your coat.....is such a person in you cloakroom Bru?
lol
ack!
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That immediately reminded me of a wonderful series of letters to the editor of the Daily Telegraph a few years ago. One pompous old fart was going on about the misuse of the word "butler" to describe a servant,after another old buffer had indicated that his butler drove the car . first fart said "in my house the butler opens the front door" or words to that effect. This was seized upon by another crony with a splendid double-barrelled name who said it distressed him to see the depths of depredation the old fart had fallen to because
"in my house I have two butlers, one for each front door "!
John Fowles
from the old Rosemary Clooney song:-
Ain't a-gonna need this house no longer
Ain't a-gonna need this house no more
Ain't got time to fix the shingles
Ain't got time to fix the floor
Ain't got time to oil the hinges
Nor to mend the windowpane