Lordy me, you gave me a case of the vapors
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"You and I are about as similar as two entirely dissimilar things in a pod." - Edmund Blackadder
Half the community is called out by "I'd rather spend the evening listening to a gentleman explain railroads" XD
Um, AKTUALLY, MY special fixation is Unique and Interesting unlike everyone else's, and that's why everyone wants to hear about the ambiguous nature of minor deities in Roman household rituals 😤
Wait you lowkey might be right, that is interesting XD
"I would prefer to be chased by an angry goose". Obviously a Canadian.
"I would rather spend an evening listening to a gentleman explain railroads". Actually that sounds neat.
Quick, fetch my fainting couch!
Janet? fetch me my tizzy couch!
Kindly place that idea back where you found it.
I ABSOLUTELY love this one. Definitely stealing it.
What's Victorian for "third row, first column has six fingers while fifth row, second column has a melted hand"?
"I think I've had one too many bourbons"
Fuck me, didn't even catch that.
Yes, and the lady also has a bit of an odd shirt. It’s probably VictorAIn humour.
> I would rather spend an evening listening to a gentleman explain railroads.
Low key, that sounds like a jovial time.
Where do I sign up?
This one is technically modern, as I saw it used by some guy relatively recently (couple of decades back), but going by technology development it could theoretically apply to Victorian times, if not for the crudeness;
'I'd rather have my dick slammed in the car door.'
I would find immeasurably greater pleasure in the use of my member to arrest the rapid closure of the door of a driverless carriage.
...if we're going with loquaciousness as the defining characteristic of Victorian english.
Im a fan of good heavens, no.
I think not, dear fellow.
The very suggestion has given me the vapors
I would actually like to spend an evening with a gentleman that explains railroads.
Column 1, row 6 is basically how claude and all AI models trained on it talk like all the time and consider the height of comedy

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