Archive | July 2021
Vancouver mansion, partially modelled on Versailles, with 12 bathrooms, sells for $42m.
Even Louis 14th couldn’t afford that amount of toilet paper.
Habeas corpus. Monty Python’s Dead Parrot sketch is often invoked when cracking legal nuts.
Ward Branch is the latest Judge to quote the sketch while okaying a case against a misleading product.
Unhenged. “Tunnel the road underneath. Of course!”
“What could possibly go wrong?”
Having visited Downing Street on the eve of ‘Freedom day’, the Health Minister,Sajid Javid announces he has been tested positive for the Delta virus.
Boris should quarantine: there goes the visit to the pub.
“Strong leadership is the yeast that lifts the mattress of dough, the magic sauce, the ketchup of catch-up.”
“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” Churchill.
Bolsonaro hiccups: A little Gripewater perhaps.
..or a heavy thump on the back.
The sugared words of abandonment.
The inadequacy of shock and awe.
Louis Andriessen,1939-1st July,2021. Outstanding composer.
Hung, Drawn and Cultured 