Comments by "" (@titteryenot4524) on ""Albur" Explained by 12 Mexicans | Easy Spanish 261" video.
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This humour is essentially Beavis & Butt-Head sniggering into their gauche, socially awkward hands. Not particularly edifying, or funny, come to that, but let’s face it, they were sniggering at this sort of stuff back in Roman times, if the unearthed graffiti are anything to go by. Mankind (and, yes, I use ‘mankind’ here, advisedly, as it is men who go for this sort of humour) has always had one eye on the starry heavens and one eye in the gutter; but the key is that, at the very least, he was actually looking at the stars, while fiddling with his wotsit in the gutter.
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 @ControlledCha0s The thought of having to read an Austen cover to cover used to bring me out in hives until, one year, I took an Eng. Lit. course; the book was Emma, and to my great surprise, it was an utter, witty, clever, insightful delight! She instantly became, and remains, one of my favourite writers. I never did do the 100 Books You Must Read … thing, but I did do the 1001 Movies You Must See … back in the day; all I can say is I’ll never get those 3 hours back after watching/enduring Titanic .
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 @ControlledCha0s Austen ain’t for everyone, I get that. I once suggested to a friend that they read some Austen; he got stuck on p.4 and muttered something about ‘watching paint dry’ being a preferable activity to enduring/reading Austen. I never did trust that old cliche, though, since it was famously said of the movies of Eric Rohmer (in another movie, Night Moves , I think) and those, in my humble opinion, couldn’t be further from the truth of ‘watching paint dry’. Yes, as Austen herself said, in Emma funnily enough: One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. Now, take me and video games, for example; I’d rather sit through Titanic 10 times consecutively, than waste a minute of my life on such nonsense. Of course, half the world will disagree, a la Austen.
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 @davidmoreno1397 Seriously though, you must have non-Spanish/Mexican heritage with a name like that, no? Actually, I’ve just checked it: you have an Irish surname, and, of course, David has Hebrew roots. It was your surname I was puzzling about. Actually, having done more research on the etymology of your surname, it seems there is an English version, after all. Being British, I knew instinctively your surname sounded more (no pun intended) English than Hispanic.
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