obscene words from "Deadwood"

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 01:41:44PM -0500, George Thompson wrote:
>
> I recall reading a biography of an English dealer in
> high-end hunting rifles and shotguns who also frequented the
> theater.  One night he went to see a well reviewed play
> about Napoleon, and could see from his orchestra seat that
> Napoleon's army was equipt with an assortment of target and
> hunting guns, mostly dating to the mid and late 19th C.
> When he got home he wrote a blistering letter to the Times
> deploring the sad decline of the British Theatre.

I think that writing letters to the Times or the BBC about
even very slight inaccuracies in (esp. military) costuming
in historical dramas is a stereotypical British thing to do.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED