Sunday, September 19, 2010

AM I INCAPABLE OF NOT OFFENDING SOMEONE?

It certainly seems so. "Why do you refer to Dr Shuker and Mr Muirhead as `The Boy Shuker` and `The Boy Muirhead`?" writes a blog-reader whose name I will not mention because I wish to spare her blushes. "Surely it is denegrating to them to refer to them as `boys`".

Well, my dear, unlike Richard Freeman, the boy Redfern and me, you obviously are not a devotee of the long-running comic strip Billy the Fish from the pages of Viz, or its ongoing satire of English football in the 1970s and 1980s.

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous1:34 PM

    Yes.

    LOL

    You're a teddy bear and everyone knows it...

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  2. I really don`t mind what anyone calls me as long as it`s a)polite and b)not the boy Margaret Thatcher.I go under the names Dr Devo,The Newsagent from Nowhere,Dr Strange,Ricardo Montalban,The Man from DelForte,etc

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