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Current Talk '24 I / Re: Everyone In Collinsport's Favorite Word Slideshow
« on: June 22, 2023, 03:38:48 PM »
If you don't want to know the circumstances surrounding Monday's entry in this slideshow, then don't read any further...
[spoiler]Monday's quote:
Ep #1120 (1840) - Gerard - 'Oh, you MUST have had a good few times, sir.'
From "#1119/1120: Robservations 09/24/03: Elopement; A Stunning Surprise"
The Robservations references the quote perfectly...
And I've often wondered if James Storm got things tongue-twisted in his delivery or not? Should it have been "a few good times", or was "a good few times" a common way of saying it in the early 19th century? Sam Hall, who wrote the ep, was very well read and educated and he may very well have intended it to be the way it's delivered...
And this is the third quote from this ep. The first (Gabriel - 'There has been a marriage today, and we MUST do something about it') was back on August 9th of 2020, and the second (Gerard - 'Now darling, we MUSTN'T start off like this. We have a brand new life ahead of us. The past is gone, dead, gone forever') was back on March 11th.
[spoiler]Monday's quote:
Ep #1120 (1840) - Gerard - 'Oh, you MUST have had a good few times, sir.'
From "#1119/1120: Robservations 09/24/03: Elopement; A Stunning Surprise"
Gerard enters the tower room, where Daniel, still in bed, greets him in a friendly way, telling him he's been waiting to see you. I thought you would be, sir, says Gerard. What an unusual man you are, says Daniel. I do hope you mean that as a compliment, says Gerard, sitting in a chair beside the bed. Oh, I do, Daniel assures him, coming to see me on your wedding night--I've been remembering my own wedding night, which turned out so badly. Oh, you must have had a good few times, sir, says Gerard. I don't remember, says Daniel, I only remember the feeling of relief when it was over--when she was...she's dead, you know...[/spoiler]
The Robservations references the quote perfectly...
And I've often wondered if James Storm got things tongue-twisted in his delivery or not? Should it have been "a few good times", or was "a good few times" a common way of saying it in the early 19th century? Sam Hall, who wrote the ep, was very well read and educated and he may very well have intended it to be the way it's delivered...
And this is the third quote from this ep. The first (Gabriel - 'There has been a marriage today, and we MUST do something about it') was back on August 9th of 2020, and the second (Gerard - 'Now darling, we MUSTN'T start off like this. We have a brand new life ahead of us. The past is gone, dead, gone forever') was back on March 11th.