On Saturday, June 1, 2013 8:37:20 PM UTC-4, sf wrote:
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> If you're talking about zed - as the line in A New Leaf (Walter
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> Matthau & Elaine May) goes: �You have managed to keep traditions alive
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> that were dead before you were born.�

Did you catch that the other night? I remembered the nightgown scene, but had forgotten the peppy dialogue, and Matthau, Man of a Thousand Expressions. A riot and too bad not aired much. I'd really like to know what he was saying about the fern----somethingorother grahami. What IS that first word?

I worked in the pit once for a My Fair Lady production, and the director had to explain to the cast that line in the song, "A to Zed"
("Why Can't the English....")