A smashing one from The Independent.
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- Why did I turn out such a pedant? Well you'd have to ask my TV-banning, lentil-baking, library-enforcing, doctor-eschewing, beanbag-sitting, grammar-correcting, homeopathic, 2nd dan black belt, all-round no-nonsense mother. 'Cos me, I got no idea.
I have always had a problem with words with two (or more) different meanings!
ReplyDeleteNo stable address? No doubt his daughter has been nagging him to settle down.
ReplyDeleteAnd, of course, he would be charged on all four counts.
Have you made this stuff up?
Slightly let down by the fact that he wasn't from Maine, California.
Overpark Avenue, Leicester, doesn't quite have the same ring to it. No pun intended.
What I don't get (unless horses can talk) is how come the charges were "buggery of a horse" as opposed to "sex with a mare"? The mind boggles.
I always thought 66-year-olds needeed step-ladders to reach tricky cupboards in the kitchen. I guess you learn every day . . .
I haven't made it up, honest! Follow the link - it goes to a real live story.
ReplyDeleteI had assumed the horse and the donkey were male and that therefore buggery was the only option. But let's not go there, please!