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[avevale_intelligencer]

Sometimes I'm convinced I'm being experimented on by aliens.

I give you my word I had never, before Saturday, encountered the phrase "keep buggering on" in connection with Churchill or anyone else. I'd have remembered.

Yesterday morning, I listened to a Benny Summerfield audio I hadn't heard before, and there it was. No mention of Churchill, just the phrase.

This keeps happening.

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[soren-nyrond.livejournal.com]

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[thnidu.livejournal.com]

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[the-magician.livejournal.com]

Do you think they will keep that phrase in for the US broadcasts? I'm not sure ...

... but yes, a quick web search reveals that it was a particularly favourite expression on his during "the wilderness years" of the 1930s ...

[valydiarosada.livejournal.com]

It certainly sounded right when he used it. And I like it! KBO!

[little-cinnamon.livejournal.com]

That happens to me *all the time*. Not with that particular phrase, but the thing where you've never heard a word or phrase and then it crops up four times in one day. Weird.

[keristor.livejournal.com]

There's a word for that. I can't remember what it is, but there's definitely a word for it. It's part of pattern recognition, that something newly learned will be noticed more often; it isn't happening more often but it will stand out as important instead of being ignored.

[soren-nyrond.livejournal.com]

I think your word is "synchronicity"

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

It's the flux.

[howeird]

This is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

[(Anonymous)]

It was mentioned in the Churchill play a few years back. The one with Ronnie Barker as Churchill's butler.

Michael Cule
Omniscient (for certain values of the word) Pedant.

[(Anonymous)]

The Churchill play

Is that like the Scottish play only different ?