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Originally Posted by Ghog
... in it's time period...in ways historical...
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To me, that was the "Get out of jail free card". If it hadn't been set 70 (or whatever) years ago I'd have been offended too. In the 1930s the whole world was a different place, and much behavior that was normal then would make caricatures today.
Take a look on A&E at Poirot, and see if the English don't seem caricatures, yet the portrayals are accurate for normal people of that era. Same for Nero Wolfe. Normal behavior from the early 1900s is seen here on AK purely for effect. How often do you see someone here referred to as a "Gentleman" or addressed as "Sir". When's the last time you heard that formality in a mall?
No one on this site is old enough to have lived through the 30s and still remember it, since if you were old enough to remember things in the 30s, you're too old to remember anything now.
Just think... in 50 years or less, we'll all be caricatures for some ancient decade, ya know, dude?
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