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Badminton Cage Match

It seemed like the sociable thing to do, signing up for the Badminton Open at the home office, forming a team with my marketing colleague Chris. Show the departmental flag, what, what! Hail fellows well met on the playing fields of Centerbrook! Pip, pip, cheerio, and all that tommyrot! How hard could it be? It [...]

Proper English, as in “Crikey, It’s the Loo!”

Editor’s note: British-isms in the text, such as theatRE, are bolded; translations, when deemed necessary, follow in parenthesis – for example, bingo wings (flabby underarms, associated with elderly denizens of gaming parlors). Our guide, a tiptop British architect from Hopkins Architects of London, was showing us Yanks, Mark Simon and me of Centerbrook, several buildings [...]