Downton Abbey - Odd Phrase??

[Smowball]

I don't watch the programme at all so couldn't name a single character, but they showed a clip the other day in which a male character stood up at a family meal to make a speech and he said something along the lines of " doing the lottery and having the winning ticket". Surely that sentence would have made no sense in that era??

[Peter Pedant]

Yeah Lord Grantham used to say that sort of thing in Daniel Deronda when he was playing Mr Grandcourt.

The colour version not the black and white version from 1970

I wonder if m'lord feels he is getting typecast

[ludwig]

// The incongruity of it, even imagined, coming from Maggie Smith's character made me smile. //

Good. That's why I said it.

[Peter Pedant]

My father around that time 1963 went to a party where schoolgirls were hired to hand out drinks and eats
and the host asked: arent they sexy ?

and the poor old boy ( my dad ) just about blew a gasket

[not appropriate for old men to lust after young soaraway sun girls]

[Obiter]

I have not yet seen the episode, (I have that pleasure yet to come) but I suspect that the great lady has overheard this expression and is trying to use it to project an aura of modernity. Don't forget that this is the lady who asked, "What is a weekend?"

[jomifl]

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fo%27%20shizzle%20my%20nizzle