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My dear Ben, surely you don't mean us?

Ben Yagoda tried to put a pin on it in his 2000 book, "About Town," as "knowing, a trifle world-weary, prone to self-consciousness and irony, scornful of conventional wisdom or morality, resistant to enthusiasm or wholehearted commitment of any kind, and incapable of being shocked". My dear Ben, surely you don't mean us?

Love surely hath been breathing here;            And this sweet bed of heath, my dear!

"My dear!

Elementary, my dear reader.

"For you, my dear".

My dear young chaps!

Believe me, my dear".

● ● My dear God, Supplication.

My dear Strongbow".

"Try it, my dear.