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He was first to use the phrase “Its all fun and games until someone loses an eye” in the modern, ironic sense…
It met with heavy criticism at the time, of course. But that usage has since become standard. Read the rest of this article here.
February 25th, 2010.
February 25th, 2010 at 10:03 am
Yeah, Christopher Hitchens is talking abouut how much he loved those books (and P.G. Woodhouse) in Vanity Fair this month.
February 25th, 2010 at 6:07 pm
Read those books and loved em as a Nipper but forgot about them that they even existed until seeing this on the site today.
Was the Dog’s name Barnacle or something lke that?
February 25th, 2010 at 6:35 pm
Just checked Wiki its Jumble. Another interesting factoid is the first TV adaptation starred a young Dennis Waterman(!)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_William_series