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Manners!

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@Alexarmstrong Licence - your British!

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@robertsepehr @NewsHour And he was the "natural" son of the Duke of Northumberland.

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@naomirwolf They come from elite classes who want to overcome local elites. They are all educated & they understand how to seek advancement in current cultural milieu in the West, which actively promotes people like them.

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@YardleyShooting Few people tune into the BBC.

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@Inevitablewest @grok is this correct?

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This is showing to me as deleted. Look at bottom of screenshot.

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@YardleyShooting I rarely see it

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@amjadt25 UK

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@admcollingwood Centred - not the spelling you have used.

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@CherifS @Genesius_Times Untrue. Some Muslims do wear turbans. https://t.co/IOUSdA581m

[David Betz @DavidBe31099196]

In C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters there is a character named ‘Toadpipe’ who is the secretary and occasional mouthpiece of the novel’s protagonist, the Abysmal Sublimity Under Secretary Screwtape, who himself is but an upper mid level executive bureaucrat in Hell.

He appears only briefly in a scene that underscores the book's satirical portrayal of Hell as a petty, inefficient bureaucracy—complete with secretaries, undersecretaries, and frustrated middle managers who literally can't hold a pen when they're angry.

Basically, Screwtape becomes so furious while dictating a letter ranting about the horrors of human love, marriage, and Heaven that he temporarily transforms himself into a large centipede due to his rage. In his transformed state he’s non verbal so he can no longer can no longer dictate the letter himself. Toadpipe steps in to take dictation and finishes transcribing the letter for him.

Toadpipe has no other lines, backstory, or personality as described in the original text—he's purely a functional figure. In stage adaptations, though, Toadpipe is often expanded into a more visible, silent or physical role—sometimes played as a quirky, hissing assistant or minion who dances, mimes, or handles props while Screwtape lectures—adding comic relief and visual flair to the one- or two-actor shows.

In short: Toadpipe is Screwtape's demonic secretary, famous mainly for stepping up when his boss rage-shifts into a giant bug.

People often talk of major media figures disparagingly as being more stenographers or courtiers than journalists. That’s very accurate, of course—I do not disagree. But, personally, what I see is Toadpipe. Very lesser assistant minions cravenly hissing away at whatever they reckon the boss thinks needs hissing at. Picture relevant.

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@DreyfusJames Same here! And, of course, your television programmes

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@afneil rumoured - use UK spellings.

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@mslindsaywagner The Bionic Woman was the first colour television programme I had ever seen. Remember that day like it was yesterday. Thanks for the memories.

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@jtworr @grok is this accurate?

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@Mony_de_Swaan @mishtal @grok https://t.co/pLtBN2UjHb

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@DickDelingpole @mikegalsworthy Licence. You're not American!

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@Suffragent_ 💪

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@MrMBrandon Happy Anniversary and blessings!

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