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Monday, 12 May 2008
Sous-Entendu

In The News:

On the weekend there was a pseudo-coup in the Sudan and a Sudoku Competition in Sioux City, Iowa. And after the  cyclone (not a tsunami) reports from Myanmar tell us that the flooding has played havoc with sewage.

Today we read that in Lebanon, hopes are raised that President Siniora will be replaced by the present head of the army, General Suleiman. Meanwhile, outside the World Bank headquarters in Washington, African demonstrators, demanding that the bank make fewer gigantic loans for capitalist corporations and replace them with green-and-grameen micro-loans, carry signs that read “Not Voodoo, But Susu Economics.”

 

There’s a moral here. It goes without saying. It’s sous-entendu.

Posted on 10:34 AM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Comments
12 May 2008
Send an emailRebecca Bynum
Sudoku Competition in Sioux City? Oh please. You must have made that up - and probably much more, but I haven't had time to google it all.

12 May 2008
Hugh Fitzgerald
So sue me.

12 May 2008
Send an emailreactionry
Penny* For Your Aughts & Naughts?
 
sous-entendu - "implied innuendo" from the Collins Dictionary.  If the savage breast won't be soothed by suing for a sous*, here's the dulcimer strains of Phil Collins, wearing a suit, and recording not in a studio, but in Fort Collins (or perhaps Denver, given that the setting seems to be what was called a "fern bar"), singing Sussudio: 
 
 
*As in cash; as in micro-lending, as in lend a mike to Johnny Cash; though not as in a boy called "Sue" nor as in the infectious charm of Sue Damonas.


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