It would appear that Richelieu brandy have commissioned a local (Cape Town) comedy due to remind us of the year just passed, I enjoyed it, hope you do too.
Tag: parody
No Woman, No Drive
Pee Fever
I must get up for a pee again, to the dowly pee must I hie,
And all I ask if I fall or slip no mar to veer forbye,
And the real kick the wind’s strong and the night hails its breaking,
And a fey frist my dreams replace, and a blay drawn aching.
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Billy Bennett
This months ‘poetry’ competition theme is parody and while searching for answers to Boa’s ‘Who are they?’ competition I came across the music hall comedian Billy Bennett. I recall that many extracts from his monologues were catch phrases, some of which still are – ‘It’s the same the whole world over – it’s the poor what gets the blame!’
Did you play space Invaders?
A long time ago Alan Coren published what I thought was a very funny article parodying the use of computer technology by a national newspaper. The piece Coren wrote for Punch was about the use of a newspaper database supposedly used at The Guardian newspaper, or The Grauniad as it was known. How ‘The Guardian’ became called ‘The Grauniad’ is the stuff of urban legend.
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I’m a lumberjack and I’m macho
It occurred to me that if I’m going to post to an Aussie blog site then, especially as a Pom, I need to show some ‘machismo’. Machismo is central to the theme in the novel ‘The Honorary Consul’ by Graham Greene. While the novel was a risible take on machismo in Latin America, it never sought to alter the meaning of the word. I can’t remember if Greene’s novel was my introduction to machismo, but when I read it I was aware that the term machismo wasn’t in common use, or the truncated version ”macho’. Macho is now of course widely used, especially by females who use it synonymously with Neanderthal. Language being one of the many subversive elements used to change society, which is now moving inexorably towards that portrayed in ‘The Worm That Turned’. How long will it be I wonder before this transformation is complete? That the male become mere chattel, a plaything, not worthy of education, relieved of his suffrage. How long I wonder before the role of the male in the reproductive process becomes a myth, leading to his acceptance that procreation occurs when the female turns her hindquarters towards Boreas?
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Boadicea's Chariot 