Come of it poirot you're a lefty intelligentsia aren't you? Very quiet about the hyperbowl of course.

Hahaha imagine if the Rodent or the mad monk had said hyperbowl. The lefties would have gone nuts.

Though Joolia in her recent attempts to distance herself from the Greens is actually out-Abbotting Mr Rabbit!

PS: I realise it is moot point not mute point and bear with me not bare with me, but I like the sound of things sometimes. I made up Baron (as opposed to Barren) Julia and liked the sound of that too.

Will pick up a book based on your recommendation csteele.

Fostering ignorance has always been the mainstay of Conservative politics in the US. Focussing issues of civil liberties and 'freedoms' around the narrow perspective of gun ownership and 'white' religious conservatism is a great distraction from the real causes of economic disparity. The opiate of the masses - never a truer word.

Houellie,

Ewe are probably rite. I take myself a little two seriously sometimes.
Perhaps I knead a brake from OLO - get back too sum real life : )

Dear csteele,

Thanks for this thread. Anyone with a taste for John Steinbeck will also be absorbed by Bageant's - "Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir." It packs quite a punch.

"Lose all your troubles,
Kick up some sand
And follow me, buddy,
To the Promised Land.
I'm here to tell you,
And I wouldn't lie,
You'll wear ten-dollar shoes
And eat rainbow pie."
(American hobo song).

Eternal rest grant to them, O Lord.
And let perpetual light shine on them.
May they rest in peace. Amen.

RIP
Joe Bageant.

Dear Poirot

At last I can understand what you write! So clear.

There is some nasty humour to be found in mocking the sounds of others, so long as no one dares to mock the mocker, of course.

Our premier is unable to say 'asked' and without fails struggles out with 'arkst', twice as hard to say though it is, along with millions of our fellow Aussie cousins.

My mother has managed to create her own creole format of English, all quite deliberate but hard to dislodge from the brain once back in more normal English. She seems to have studied the 'average mans' spoken word and distorted it even further.

The one I most appreciate is on those blogs concerning school chaplains. Their supporters, tending to the bottom end of the intelligence measurement, invariably refer to them as 'Chaplins'.

Indeed, they are.

TBC,

"Chaplins"....

- conjures up some comical visions of school "counselling" sessions.