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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Dracon" data-source="post: 3285550" data-attributes="member: 14799">Lee - most Americans consider sarcasm wounding and only funny when applied to one's favorite political hypocrite, rival, or enemy.  I believe you Brits have come close to perfecting personal insults in the English language.  We listen to the exchange in your parliament and chuckle and then listen to our politicians feign civility as they introduce each other as "my esteemed colleague" when in reality they are contemptuous of each other.  English is such a verbal "chowder"; we wonder why real meaning manages to elude us. John</blockquote>