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From: jpexg@mit-hermes.ARPA (John Purbrick)
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Subject: Re: What's so funny about Esher?
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Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 15:46:38 EST
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> 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.