Definitions.

[wemyss]

An intellectual is someone who bangs on about Congreve and Wycherley and Udall and Wilde ... and refuses to admit that Morecambe and Wise, Ken Dodd, Tommy Cooper, and Frankie Howerd were bloody funny.

An academic is someone who writes and lectures about why Wilde and Sheridan and Shaw were funny ... but doesn't get the joke when it's Humph or Horne

Comments

[steepholm]

No, no, an intellectual is someone who writes about Kenneth Williams, Morecombe and Wise, etc. in such a way as to ensure that they aren't funny any more. I direct you to the latest copy of Studies in Twentieth-Century Hilarity, which includes such worthwhile articles as:

"'Just Like That': Cooper, Lacan and the Ontological Tyranny of the Mirror Stage."

"On the Way to the Forum: Traces of Speech and Presence in Howerd/(How-word?) and Beckett."

"Bringing Them Sunshine: Blakean Echoes in Eric and Ernie's Imperialist Imperative."

"'Put that Light Out!': Dad's Army as a Case Study in Oedipal Trauma."

Be careful what you wish for.

You are, surely, joking.

[wemyss]

You simply must be.

Re: You are, surely, joking.

[steepholm]

Well, yes, but many a true word...

Tcht.

[wemyss]

Here I fed you w the perfect set-up for 'and don't call me Shirley' and you buggered up yr lines.

Sigh.