One answer, perhaps, is that audiences in other countries simply do not have the French fondness of puerile farce.

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Tonight student representatives have shown that the vast majority of St Andrews students are much better than this sort of puerile and offensive behaviour.

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The puerile simplicity of some political coverage, Bagehot submits, reflects a broader and worrying immaturity in the way the country thinks about politics and government.

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The boozy Friday lunches in London with his clever friends, and their shared fondness for puerile, obscene word games, will leave most readers bored and mystified.

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Why must you always be so puerile in your humor?

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"Frankly, it borders on the puerile, " he says.

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Music with overwrought drama or stupid, puerile lyrics.

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But in these recessionary times, even financial officers can be sympathetic underdogs, and instead the film contents itself with puerile cracks about his manhood and undeveloped hints that her bad influence might rub off in a good way.

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As far as the commentators are concerned, Olmert's puerile attack on the American secretary of state in the midst of a war shows that the he is still the same prideful, vain, motor-mouth that Israelis have come to know and despise over the past several years.

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