6.28.2005

Cheerio

I think if I were a conman, I'd do everything I could to be as British as possible. The more you sound like a befuddled Hugh Grant, the more you can get away with.

"Oh, I'm dreadfully sorry, I seem to have accidentally stabbed your husband to death with an icepick. I'm just so terribly sorry. Would you happen to have a towel I could borrow?"

I'd need to throw in more British-isms, like "flat" and "lorry" and maybe "buggered", but you get the idea.

A good reality show might be "British Guy", just seeing how much crap he could get away with, like shoplifting and whatnot. Or, maybe it'd be a good David Letterman bit. Something like that.

posted by risser at 12:10