This site is for the Mark & Naomi Iliff family. For Mark’s work persona go to Talespinner

Editor access Iliff-King phrasebook

subscribe
×

Enter your email address to receive an email notification of new entries to the phrasebook

You will receive no more than one a day. We will not use your email for any other purpose. Each email will include an unsubscribe link.

Search resultsClose

definition

<

clever people like me who talk loudly in restaurants expression or saying

Expression of disapproval of people who talk loudly in restaurants

Origin

From the Monty Python sketch Mr Neville Shunt. The line is: Art critic: Some people have made the mistake of seeing Shunt’s work as a load of rubbish about railway timetables, but clever people like me, who talk loudly in restaurants, see this as a deliberate ambiguity, a plea for understanding in a mechanized world.

Collector

M & N – 1980s
Mark & Naomi

Submitted: 11/08/2021 by Mark

any thoughts?

Comments are reviewed before publication for taste and relevance. Spam is not published (even if you’re the waste of DNA who has tried >300 times).





To be notified when your comment is published, enter your email. It will not be published or used for any other purpose without your permission:



/phrase/word.php 361
362 360