On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 16:13:19 -0700 "Laurie Campbell"
 writes:
> > > And then we have the servant, Sam, in LoTR... 
> > complete with
> > a 'lower class' accent, to further complicate the mess.  
> 
> Nah, that's what every Kindergartener recognizes as "the buddy 
> system"
> 
> The convention is straight out of Shakespeare -- who was probably 
> using
> an older convention, but I've not studied the older conventions, 
> e.g.
>         Lear has his York
>         Hamlet his Horatio
>         Prospero his Ariel
>         Romeo his Mercutio (sp)
>         MacBeth had his Banquo (until he off'd him)

Lord Peter has his Bunter
Poirot has his Hastings
Morse has his Sergeant Lewis
Black Adder has his Baldric....

Bertie has his Jeeves
> 
> Goes back way further than that - there were buddies in the Bible, 
> too,
> and even in the sagas of Gilgamesh, which is even older than that. 
> It's
> a human thing
> 
> and so on.... 
>         Crosby had his Hope, too.... =g=
>                 And cried, don't stop, I want Lamore!
> 
> Now that's just bad 

yes it was.... =g!=


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