Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/12/84; site mit-hermes.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!mit-hermes!jpexg From: jpexg@mit-hermes.ARPA (John Purbrick) Newsgroups: net.movies,net.tv.drwho Subject: Re: What's so funny about Esher? Message-ID: <2279@mit-hermes.ARPA> Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 15:46:38 EST Article-I.D.: mit-herm.2279 Posted: Fri Jan 11 15:46:38 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 13-Jan-85 08:13:38 EST References: <2760@ncsu.UUCP> Organization: The MIT AI Lab, Cambridge, MA Lines: 13 Xref: watmath net.movies:5440 net.tv.drwho:750 > Would someone in the UK enlighten me, please. Is there something inherently > funny about Esher? > _Doctor_ Jon Mauney, mcnc!ncsu!mauney I'm not in the UK, but the joke(?) about Esher is that it is the canonical upper upper middle class suburb of London (as opposed to Surbiton, which is the canonical just-plain-upper middle class suburb). It also cropped up in an episode of "Rumpole of the Bailey", where a certain judge's major concern in court was whether he'd get away in time to catch the 4:04 (or something like it) to Esher. There you have it, the sort of place judges live in. It's pronounced Eesher, by the way.