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 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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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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