"Jim Weir" wrote in message
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In an on-the-air (*) broadcast, a BBC announcer was trying to explain the
difference between the Republicans and the Democrats to his British
audience.

"The Republicans are verry like our ... ahhh ... Conservatives.
The Democrats are verry like our ... ahhh ... Conservatives."

Thereby quoting the late Michael Flanders in a live US appearance (with his
stage partner, Donald Swann) many many years ago.

-- David Brooks