En passant

Missus Em is sulking. She is in a snit. Her blog is accused of being incomprehensible. So she is going to write an erudite post so full of scholarship that it will boggle minds and drop jaws at the breadth of her knowledge. You have been warned.

Laurence Olivier could 'value cornier lie', but Alec Guinness had 'genuine class'.

George Bush, 'he bugs Gore', they say, they do.
George W Bush, 'he grew bogus' they say too.
Yes, President George 'Dubya' Bush is
'Ego upset by pride and hubris'.
But Tony Blair is 'only a Brit'
Even for Americans 'tis only a 'tiny labor' to discover it.

Paris Hilton is 'an Irish plot' and Victoria Beckham is an 'abhor cake victim'.

But Missus Em will have nothing to do with these film types, these political types and society types. She prefers to contemplate loftier ideas.

Ludwig van Beethoven was a 'Vienna vet who bugled' whereas Wilhelm Richard Wagner will 'cling harder while warm'. Did Sergei Rachmaninov 'ever sing a harmonic' as a 'sovereign chairman' or Maurice Ravel have a 'Valium career'?

Romeo and Juliet were 'la mort d'une joie' but Julius Caesar was a victim of 'casual juries'. William Shakespeare might have modestly said, 'I am a weakish speller', but 'we all make his praise'.

Satanic Verses was thought to be in 'Satan's service' and saw 'vast increases' in hatred for him and Salman Rushdie had to 'run amid hassle' because they thought he said 'read, shun Islam'.

A 'trap of hoping soon' is what readers will get caught in if they expect Missus Em to lark now; because 'apropos of nothing' is her new motto. Missus Em won't write about a topic any more, she won't. Missus Em refuses to be mollified. A 'problem in Chinese' it may be, but incomprehensible she will remain.

En passant and in 'an aptness' too, here is a link to a truly mind-boggling news item. Missus Em wishes she had thought of it when she still had a dog. Missus Em recommends that you read it and laugh.


Cheers!