Welcoming the new School Bully. Old School bully hands over School Concubine, (more or less intact)
This STUNNING!! piece from our luminary front near north Sir Atney of Emo.
He writes,
‘Faced with reconciling the irreconcilable, that fantasist and Latinist, now elevated to No. 10, would dismiss it all with an optimistic – ‘Quid, me anxious sum?’ *…
Those of us who are ’normal’ (more or less) watch this theatre of the absurd, and are agape and aghast. Behaviours and statements that would have had us knotted in shame, guilt and embarrassment, are as nothing to these narcissists: they count on our attention being quickly deflected by yet another outrage!
It must be marvellous to hear only resounding applause, and to see only swollen crowds wearing red trucker caps.
Maybe we are too self-censorious! We should learn to accept that, in a post-modernist world, all truth is relative – and image is reality’!
Sir Atney,
PS
*I recall that Mad Magazine issue back in 1961. Alfred E. Neumann’s phrase has stood me in good stead ever since!
Addenda, For the pcbycp’s schoolboys edition
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Dear reader, by now most of you are aware and absolutely delighted that the current occupant of number 10 likes to quote his Latin. Proof of his intelligence and erudition.
Dull and Boring. How Latin should be. If you scratched out the “L” in Latin and made it and “E”, then it would read, ” an Approach to Eatin”. Hours of fun!
Doubtless he was tutored as many were long ago from these ancient textbooks. Textbooks which still get a snigger from those boys in the upper sixth who had not developed emotionally much further into adulthood. For those not broken on the wheel of compulsory Latin, we remind you that this was an era long past. An era so ancient that children were issues with Christian names, ( Nigel, Bruce, William, Trevor Simon, or even in some instances Alexander) before this trend followed the American custom of issuing children’s with Surnames as Christian names.
WE are offering these limited edition school textbooks so that you may re- live those treasured moments. Each book comes with a whip, scholastic ruler, piece of chalk , blackboard duster and Master’s cane. Optional academic gown in Plain black, or flashes of crimson for those mired in Catholicism. And a school hymnal with naughty pictures scrawled between Psalm 124 and between hymns 34 and 67 in the standard schools edition.
(Chewing Gum smears are entirely free)
This would always get a snigger..
Such is the august background that has made He, (Alexander, Boris de Pfeffel Johnson) captain of the BIG SCHOOL! WE are so proud.