How did the upper lips become stiff?

[elshiva]

Why to the British have stiff upper lips?

[LeftyMom]

1. Inbreeding.

And it's an adaptation to minimize exposure to their "food."

[Runcible Spoon]

2. residual metal from the silver spoons at birth?

:shrug: I associate stiff upper lippage with British aristocracy...

[elshiva]

3. What if they were born

with a plastic spoon in their mouthes?

[Swede]

4. To remain resolute and brave in the face of adversity,

and to suppress the display of any emotion.

[crimsonblue]

5. cocaine

it's a helluva drug

[PassingFair]

6. My English cousin ended up delivering his 1st born at home,

the ambulance didn't make it in time!

He called me after the birth, and he was
FLYING on adrenaline and happiness.

I asked him about his wife, Debby, and he
said she was in pretty good shape and had
kept her calm...

I congratulated him and told him how much
I admired their courage, "Stiff upper lip,
and all that".

He shot back "It wasn't her UPPER LIP
I was worried about!"

They've since immigrated to Australia, and
I haven't seen them in YEARS.

Our babies were born on the same day, July 26.

[Connonym]

7. Side effect of Viagra?

n/t

[elshiva]

8. Yes.

Actually, that is a problem.

[mcctatas]

9. side effect of decades under the rule of...

English dentistry? :shrug:

[DarkTirade]

10. Mustache wax. Builds up after a while.

[elshiva]

11. Reminds me of the Blackadder episode during WWI

where the general keeps buffing up his mustache. "How's my mustache? Bushy enough?"

Also, Baldrick had to have a stiff upper lip to hold that slug under his nose.

[Oeditpus Rex]

12. It's a requirement of

upper-class twittery.

[elshiva]

13. His best friend is a tree.

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. In his spare time

he's a stockbroker.



You ever catch the mistake at the end?


There's Nigel, he's shot Simon by mistake, Simon is back up and there's Nigel, Nigel's shot himself: Nigel is third in this fine and most exciting Upperclass Twit of the Year Show I've ever seen. Nigel's clubbed himself into fourth place.

[elshiva]

15. What a great twit.

His father uses him as a wastepaper basket.

[Oeditpus Rex]

16. Eton, Sandhurst and the Guards

He's dead, but he's not necessarily out of it.

[elshiva]

17. Take the bra off the debs.

Insulting the waiter.

[Fox Mulder]

18. I have something that's stiff...

and it isn't my upper lip.

It's my damn finger. x(

[elshiva]

19. Sorry hon.

I did not know that you were British.


Come on, Wesley, where's that stiff upper lip?

[Fox Mulder]

20. ...

[elshiva]

21. Hey, that's my other boyfriend there!

That's what Faith said to Wesley when she was torturing him. She straddled him and faked a British accent. Sexy.

[Fox Mulder]

22. Ooooh...bad Faith...

I want her to torture and spank me.