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Re: Somerset?
Hmm. My father grew up in Somerset so I can't think of it as a personal name, Mr. Maugham notwithstanding. It sounds like a nouveau riche way of crashing the gate. It turns me off, sorry. (I'll probably get flambe'ed for this comment, but it's my honest reaction.)
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That's what I thought, too mIt's like the high society version of Brooklyn.
Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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You're funny.I appreciate the imagery of your words...I'll have to swipe that phrase from you and drop it in conversation as my own! Ha!
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