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She Who Must Be Obeyed

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HR Haggard wrote SHE in 1887,about an Amazon queen, She, who must be obeyed. Modern use,though, has put the Mrs into the amazon queen role...!

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Rumpole of the Bailey only ever referred to his wife as She who must be obeyed - Rumpole almost certainly read Ryder Haggard at school (or John Mortimer did anyway)

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Truth and fiction

<<or John Mortimer did, anyway)>>

John Mortimer himself said that, in his barrister days, the distinction between himself and Rumpole wasn't always clear in his client's mind.

Having lost a case for one such customer, a professional Sarf London criminal, he went to see him in the cells afterwards, for a consolatory word, to be greeted with "your Mister Rumpole would have got me orf"

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Re: Truth and fiction

Great character, the Rumpole omnibus's and lifejackets are the only constants on our boat

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<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.gaarde.org/acronyms/>http://www.gaarde.org/acronyms/</A>

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Re: Quite a lot in the last 16 years

Oooh. A sort of backhanded (or hamfisted) compliment. Should we assume SHE's reading over your shoulder?

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