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[jazzfish]

For the last couple days I've had in my head the voice of an elderly man, who speaks with the slightest of accents, saying, "Well. So far, so. . . far."

I'm almost dead certain this is from some movie fairy-tale but I have no idea, and it's driving me insane.

Help?

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[jazzfish]

grr argh I've almost got it. *tears hair* It's. . . it's. . . oh.

I think it's from the radio play of Anansi Boys. At least, the way the vowels slope in the voice I hear in my head is the same as the way Lenny Henry draws out "Fat Charlie."

This happens all the time. Usually I can remember well enough what it is my brain's making pop-culture references to.