Cras wrote:
Yeah, pretty much. And that one snowballed primarily because it's so hilariously apt. The comparison was first made by Dickens, apparently.
Nicholas Nickleby, indeed.
" "‘The meaning of that term — gammon,’ said Mr Gregsbury, ‘is unknown to me. If it means that I grow a little too fervid, or perhaps even hyperbolical, in extolling my native land, I admit the full justice of the remark. I AM proud of this free and happy country. My form dilates, my eye glistens, my breast heaves, my heart swells, my bosom burns, when I call to mind her greatness and her glory.’”