unearths some literary gems.
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[One-upping Whistler's Mother dept.]
"Who the hell is she?...Whistler's bleeding grandmother?"
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["I'll give YOU...!" dept.]
"Starting from Barford-in-the-Meadow, you see, and then widening out in ever increasing circles."
"I'll give you ever increasing circles!"
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Ermengelda's Kitchen (Gifte Shoppe & Café) was an aggressive pastiche of what a middle-European set designer for an American film might have thought an eighteenth-century English coffee-house looked like.
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Miss Ermengilda waited until Doris had gone on her way in a flurry of indifference.
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Even day-dreaming about work seemed to tire him out.
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Dover knew who it was....That--he would stake his life on it--was What's-her-name!
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[Bonus: The action takes place in a village called Frenchy Botham. Another place, referred to in passing, is Lesser Wibbley.]
