On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 5:18 AM, Ned Batchelder <n...@nedbatchelder.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, November 20, 2013 1:09:42 PM UTC-5, Mark Lawrence wrote: >> I suggest that you write to the BBC and get all episodes of the >> extremely popular *COMEDY* "Dad's Army" withdrawn as "typical shabby >> Nazi trick" was one of Captain Mainwearing's main lines. > > I see what you are getting at. You were referring to a TV show popular in > your part of the world 30 years ago. As this is a world-wide group, you > might understand that I didn't get the reference, and perhaps many others did > not either. Humor is tricky, you need to know your audience.
The solution is really quite simple. The insertion of a single footnote will do it. Let it stand that every obscure reference is explained after your signature, and there you are, out of your difficulty at once! [1] ChrisA [1] See Gilbert & Sullivan's "Iolanthe", eg http://math.boisestate.edu/gas/iolanthe/web_op/iol23d.html -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
