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Dear Messrs Dumb and Dumber,

  It was good of you tell me you have a sense of humour.  I shouldn't have
realised it otherwise.
  You ask where I got what you call the "ridiculous" names for many of my
characters.  Very much where you'd expect.  Some I got from real names I
observed.  Snodgrass and Chadband, for instance, are real names.  Some, such
as Chuzzlewit and Scrooge, I invented.
  How you can suppose I cast Harry Secombe as Mr Bumble, in the musical
comedy called "Oliver," passes the limits of my understanding.  You must ask
the producers.


Faithfully yours,



Charles Dickens
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>Where did Dickens get all the ridiculous names for his characters ?
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>Why did you cast Harry Secombe as Mr Bumble in Oliver ? or were you dead?
>Yes I am a postgraduate in Eng Lit - NOT!!! but I do have a sense of humour.
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>>From Dumb & Dumber (aka Jim & Jeff)
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