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Downton Abbey Discussion continued...

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ErikNorseman · 07/10/2012 22:08

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MeFour · 08/10/2012 15:34

Saltire
No I do too
Then I have to keep it so I can go and look at what people are talking about on here

HoratiaWinwood · 08/10/2012 16:04

Edith is channelling Beyonce and singing 'All the Single Ladies (under 30 should be allowed to vote)'.

Like.

springyhope · 08/10/2012 16:20

The huge research team wouldn't let wrong stuff through.

except 'sort out some sandwiches for branson, carson'

sort out? I want to at least pretend that DA is real, with real live people in it. Can't with all that american stuff in. I can just see them all in their trailers wearing jeans.

Animation · 08/10/2012 16:34

Oh man! can't believe I fell asleep on the settee five minutes into it last night - just as they were opening letters and Anna didn't have one. Confused

I'm reading what you're saying - but I can't get a clue. Confused

Will watch tonight. Smile

HoratiaWinwood · 08/10/2012 17:35

Yes, that was cringey. I suspect the script actually said "ask Mrs Patmore to cut some sandwiches" but Lady Mary ad libbed. Tsk.

spilttheteaagain · 08/10/2012 18:46

What about new footman to Alfred about Carson "He acts like he's the big cheese".
Alfred "He is the big cheese".

Big cheese???!

springyhope · 08/10/2012 19:03

Where can we send these complaints? I suppose it's all filmed now but I'd like to get to the 'big cheese' in all this and Be Heard.

they're talking about cheese on the Archers

Felicitywascold · 08/10/2012 19:05

I do wish Mrs Hughes would wake up next to Carson one morning!

This. Or at the very least a snog in the wine cellar..

HoratiaWinwood · 08/10/2012 19:12

Does anyone have an OED? There are usually dates on slang expressions.

diddl · 08/10/2012 19:20

From what I have found-1920s

HoratiaWinwood · 08/10/2012 19:30

Then the scriptwriters are showing off again.

squoosh · 08/10/2012 19:57

Carson is dying to polish Mrs Hughes' silver ware and she is dying to grab his bouillon spoon.

Filth.

Felicitywascold · 08/10/2012 20:07

My DH likes to pronounce Downton 'Filthy' at points of slight innuendo during the programme. Makes for entertaining viewing when every nown again I hear the word muttered darkly from someone who's in the room but pretending not to be watching!

Felicitywascold · 08/10/2012 20:09

"The first reference there to 'big cheese' meaning wealth or fame comes from 'O. Henry' (William Sydney Porter), in Unprofessional Servant, 1910"

From a uk website about the origin of slang terms.

dementedma · 08/10/2012 20:15

If Mary is barren or Matthew firing blanks then there will be no heir,and if Sybil has a boy then the irishman's son will inherit.
I don't think there is any way Pickle would have gone into service with the hated English in the first place.

diddl · 08/10/2012 20:17

If the estate is entailed, I thought it could only go through the male line.

How can another man´s son inherit?

WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeGoes · 08/10/2012 20:23

It would have to be a male relative of Matthew.

dementedma · 08/10/2012 20:23

Hmm. But if there is no son or anymore nephews.....then what would happen?

diddl · 08/10/2012 20:25

If Matthew is the last male, does that mean that the entail would no longer apply & he can leave it to who he wishes?

WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeGoes · 08/10/2012 20:25

I don't know. He hasn't got any brothers. No pressure then Mary.

spilttheteaagain · 08/10/2012 21:28

In which case I stand corrected re the Big Cheese. Bloody JF!

TooImmatureGhostiesAndGhoulies · 08/10/2012 21:40

Am eagerly looking forward to ructions between Matthew and Lord Fatty Bum Bum over financial mismanagement. Maybe Carson's been fiddling the books somehow - backdoor trade in vintage port or suchlike.

The scene with Ethel and Charlie was so sad!

Moln · 08/10/2012 22:55

Lord fatty bum bum is such a wally, telling Matthew everything was fine (or whatever he said)

Yes yes that's right Fatty Bum Bum, because it's not like your only just after losing a fortune is it

squoosh · 08/10/2012 23:04

I did think 'oooh controversial' when Lord Fatty Bungle from Rainbow said there was 'something of the johnny foreigner' about Catholics.

LadyHarrietdeSpook · 08/10/2012 23:14

I don't think pickles son can inherit. It has to go through the male line. If any of the three Girls sons could have inherited they wouldnt have been in such a panic.