blighter

Brit. slang especially prevalent in the Jeeves stories by P.G. Wodehouse. An annoying person. Perhaps the word is related to "blight", a plant disease that ruins potatoes (as a "blighter" tends to ruin things in which he's involved). The word appears to be milder in force than "bastard".

I tackled the blighter squarely. I mean to say, nobody knows better than I do that Jeeves is a master mind and all that, but, dash it, a fellow must call his soul his own. -- from The Inimitable Jeeves, by P.G. Wodehouse

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du kannst mich mal

German slang: "You can lick my arse". The swear was allegedly invented by Goethe.

Du, Arschloch -- du kannst mich mal!

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I Remember Cecil

Title of a hypothetical English action film (starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone) in the Family Guy episode "One If By Clam, Two If By Sea". The film appears to exist only in Peter Griffin's imagination as he envisions a British subversion of the American action genre, and is a parody of the British miniseries adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited.

"I Remember Cecil" is rather homoerotic.

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