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In response to "Jim - if we're looking for the positive, we gave the Brits a great gift - they can feel classier than us" by crash davis

It's like ... if the brits took us (well, you guys) to the Opera (The Marriage of Figaro), and you returned the favour by taking them to NASCAR.

Posted by Beryllium (aka grayman) Mar 11 '09, 09:55

It's not bad, it's just ... not the same.

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No, it sure isn't. NASCAR is way better than some stupid opera. -- nm - TWuG Mar 11, 09:55 5
- Reading the wikipedia list of famous operas, it occurred to me that Operas were to the 1600s+ what films are today -- nm - Beryllium Mar 11, 09:57 3
  - pretty much, and there were lowbrow ones as well as highbrow. Not eveything was held in as high a cultural regard when it was written as it is today -- nm - znufrii Mar 11, 10:00
  - Messeth Not With The Zohan. -- nm - TWuG Mar 11, 09:58 1
    - Pray Tell What Hast Thou Meaneth, "You People"? -- nm - Beryllium Mar 11, 10:06
- DTM -- nm - znufrii Mar 11, 09:56

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