Churchill quote: spurious?

[Jonathan Lighter]

I believe it was in the early '80s when big firms started preferring British
receptionists because their accents (well, the BBC sort) made the entire
firm sound smarter and more exclusive.

To Americans.

The Founders are spinning.


JL

On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:

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> Yaa.  The Brits have invaded US media.  Proof - CNN.  Piers Morgan
> replacing Larry King.  Lots of British accents in the newsroom.
>  Unnecessary.  One CNN black lady reporter spoke of the flooding on the
> Mississippi with a big time UK accent.  At 10pm.  What is that?  IS there no
> US talent up to the task?  Blimey.
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> As a US kid I never heard a British accent in media until the Beatles and
> the British invasion of music, which I still enjoy very much.  But British
> newscasters of US News on US stations?  Strange.
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> Tom Zurinskas, first Ct 20 yrs, then Tn 3, NJ 33, Fl 9.
> Learn the alphabet and sounds of US English at justpaste.it/ayk
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> > A conservative contributor to CNN has just uttered the following: "As
> > Winston Churchill said, 'You can count on the American people to do the
> > right thing - once they've exhausted every other option.'"
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> > My vote is that it's Memorex, not real, but I'm only guessing. I haven't
> > found anything like it in YBQ.
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> > I can remember when it was Lincoln and Mark Twain who used to say
> > everything. This Churchill and Orwell business seems ominous somehow.
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> > JL
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> > "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the
> truth."
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