29 Aug 2008
reactionry
Joan Hunter Dead?
Or: Returning To The Playing Fields Of "Eaten"*
Or: The Burning Desire of Robert Burns' Wee Willy
Or: Cheatin' At Eaton?
What's worse than turning "48 million Englishmen" into Scotsmen? -Turning Scots into Muslims. "This can mean only one thing":
They mean to win Wimbledon
Poseur disclosure: -haven't the foggiest if there are tennis courts at Eaton. Also, although I played tennis in my youth and garnered some laurels (though no "garland's briefer than a girl's"), I "outlived" my "name", and played with the "grace" of a Scotsman.
* Or like a dog returning to its vomit or something I saw on a tee-shirt for sale, " Eatin' Ain't Cheatin' " -which might be desirable if one to otherwise make do with a Burns unit, or if one's singed willy/unit had been in a Burns Ward/Unit.
31 Aug 2008
reactionry
What's worse than leaving out "has" in "one [has] to otherwise make do" or the gasp, shudder greengrocer's apostrophe in "garland's"? -Leaving out a hat tip for the "Burns ward/unit" joke. It is probably buried somewhere in the NER archives given that Google gives a "link pointing to" hit under "Duff and Nonsense."
