# Brits' use of ''sir''

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brits-use-of-sir/86883>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 11, 2001, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brits-use-of-sir/86883 "2001-10-11T20:33:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Futile\_Gesture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Futile\_Gesture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Futile_Gesture)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brits-use-of-sir/86883/21 "2001-10-12T16:01:38Z")

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> _Originally posted by Larry Mudd \*  
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> (Some old episodes of Stephen Fry’s forgotten BBC radio program, Saturday Night Fry. About 14MB each. With Hugh Laurie & Emma Thompson.)_\*

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

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**Author:** ![Futile\_Gesture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Futile\_Gesture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Futile_Gesture)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brits-use-of-sir/86883/22 "2001-10-12T16:07:03Z")

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Bah, stupid browser decided to post before I’d finished. As I was saying…

I was just listening to an old Fry & Laurie radio show I have on tape just the other week and thinking it was a pity I didn’t have more.

[End of Hijack]

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brits-use-of-sir/86883/23 "2001-10-12T20:23:05Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Larry Mudd \*  
> \*\***[HIJACK]**
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> > \*Originally posted by Mangetout \*  
> > **IMHO, Fry and Laurie are the masters of this, like in [this](http://www.geocities.com/mmemym/bits1/fal0005.htm) sketch.**
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> \*\*\*[sup]POOF!![/sup]\*\*\*A [treat](http://mudd.dhs.org/snf/) suddenly appears for **mangetout** , who has spoken the sacred names of Fry & Laurie.  
> (Some old episodes of Stephen Fry’s forgotten BBC radio program, Saturday Night Fry. About 14MB each. With Hugh Laurie & Emma Thompson.)  
> **[/HIJACK]** \*\*

Hey thanks, that’s the kind of hijack I like.

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brits-use-of-sir/86883/24 "2001-10-13T02:32:22Z")

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You’re quite welcome, sirs.  
[sub]Hey, why has my creaky old web-server gone all wobbly all the sudden?[/sub]:eek:

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