> In Desperate Housewives, just before jointly trashing their house
> [*], Carlos accused Gabby of being "miffed" about what she was to
> receive under the divorce settlement.
>
> If I'd been asked last week, I would have said that "miffed" is
> localised even in the UK and unknown in the US.

It's quite well-known in the US of A, thank you.

> Has Carlos been holidaying in Wilmslow?
>
> * The house miraculously seemed to have been put back together the
> following week.
>
> And while I'm on it, how can Carlos and Gabby (an unemployed ex-
> convict with a conviction for fraud, and an unemployed ex-model
> with no common sense) maintain a fantastically expensive house,
> and two amazing cars, either of which would be beyond my means
> (and I'm not exactly strapped for cash)? Should I marry a dim
> ex-model and commit fraud to get the lifestyle which TV promises
> can be mine?

Just become one of Ronald Reagan's mythical Welfare Queens and you, too, can live like a gentleman on a substantial pension.

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