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It's the scene in a posh restaurant in which Wallace regards the Wigands' paroxysms of fear over the coming 60 Minutes interview with aristocratic contempt.
Observation reveals that we have been spared the last two, but the rest are retained as mainstays of British humor, especially knickers (American English: panties), the mere mention of which seems to send everyone in the U.K. in paroxysms of uncontrollable laughter.
Some slips that pass in the type might send their clippers; into paroxysms of hysterical laughter, but if they have no effect on the Editor, they are consigned to oblivion.
But these are natural conversations, and it evidently takes so little to make people laugh--an apt metaphor seems to send them into paroxysms of laughter--that one need no longer wonder at the success of stand-up comedians who rarely say anything funny but focus on reminding their audiences of truisms.