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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How many more episodes do we have?[/quote]

according to wikipedia, there are 8 episodes and a Christmas special.  We've seen 7, so only two more to go.

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Oh no!!![/quote]

Well, it's been a regular snooze-fest the last few seasons, so I will be relieved.

Also, Edith saying "Suck it up."  Yeah, vacuums in the homes weren't commonplace yet and although DA had electricity, I doubt there were any outlets.  Pathetic writing or lazy actress who can't learn her lines.[/quote]

When did Edith say, "Suck it up," and in what context?  I must have missed that.[/quote]

Sorry, to clarify, she said something in the first two minutes to the effect that Mary's beau was "sucking up" to Lord Grantham.
Way, to early for the term:  http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/suck–up[/quote]

I'm sorry, you mean [i]too[/i] early... I get what you're trying to say about the writers, but why take a hit at the actress? If the writers and actors are too lazy and the plot too boring, stop watching the show. [/quote]
Actually that language is not anachronistic. "Sucking up to someone" didn't derive from vacuum cleaners and first documented use is from around 1860[/quote]

Interesting...can you say more about the early usage and derivation?  It seems like, even if it was in usage, it would be considered pretty coarse langauge, and not what a lady of good family would use. [b] (My mother is still horrified by use of the word "sucks"). [/b] I liked Lord Grantham saying "It all seems a bit rum to me" or whatever he said when invited to the servants' hall to receive the package from Granny ...I don't know, but that certainly sounds like something a 1920's British lord would have said!
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HA!  My mom is horrified too!  And I find myself telling my kids not to use it  because it sounds "common" and trashy!  I guess it does have a vulgar connotation that today's kids aren't really aware of, or don't care about, even if it's not a "bad" word.  Still, I cringe whenever I hear my kids say it around my mom!   :wink: [/quote]

They're different words. I'm British and sometimes kids say things suck, but generally it's not used. But the phrase to "suck up to someone" (like to kiss ass), which is what Edith said, is a much older phrase - I will try to find a source for it and post it. If you ever read Enid Blyton books (British author writing in the 1930s and 1940s) - not sure if they are known here? Famous Five, Mallory Towers, etc? Anyway - she used that phrase a lot (said by posh girls in boarding schools in the 1930s!). I think it would have been something the younger members of the family would have said but not the older ones, and I don't think it would have been considered common or trashy. It didn't stick out to me at all. [/quote]

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