•have a shufti (at something)
(British English, informal) to have a quick look at something •
According to a Martin J Pitt on Quora: “Spelled shufti it means “look!” in Arabic (from past tense of shaf) and was picked up in the Second World War by soldiers such as my father. It is what pedlars would say when offering goods such as dirty postcards, or various article of doubtful genuineness. I actually have his Egyptian phrase book from the time.”
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The foreshadowing...
Sara Vickers as Joan Thursday & Sean Rigby as Jim Strange
ENDEAVOUR (2012 - 2023)
3x04 - 9x03
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we meet again
(screenshot redraws from s9)
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Sometimes I think about how proud Morse would be that:
a) Roger Allam has some opera training and is still a massive opera and classical fanboy
b) Kevin Whately's daughter Kitty is a professional opera/classical singer (and a v good one!)
I think he'd like both Shaun Evans and John Thaw too (and would be psyched that Thaw's second marriage was to a Quaker!), though he might be freaked out by how many serial killers Evans has played. But Allam and Whately, especially the latter? Oh that would make his *year*. :-)
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DCI Endeavour Morse + DS Robert Lewis in 'Service of All the Dead', Inspector Morse (ITV, 1987).
"Lewis said nothing more. He'd worked with Morse many times before, and treated his outbursts rather as he had once treated the saddeningly bitchy bouts of temper from his own teenage daughters. Nevertheless, it still hurt a bit."
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“Academia is cool and sexy until I’m expected to do work.”
-Endeavour Morse (at university).
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wouldn't it have been something if E. "Pagan" Morse and F. "Spooky" Mulder had ever met! they in all likelihood would have hated each other, but the snark off involved would've been epic and ridiculous <333
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Tfw you’re watching Inspector Morse:
And realize you have the same taste in decor as the sad old alcoholic-Oxford drop out detective man:
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