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Thursday, 14 April 2011
Out to Lunch
When someone has gone to so much trouble, I think it is very unfair of the London Review of Books to put a typo at the beginning of line 7 :
Gadjo - was Elvis his real name, by the way? queenwilly - I am very fond of your picture of overgrown barbecue instruments (not to mention the ones of your cat and dog). I haven't read Sexually, I'm more of a Switzerland. I shall seek it out.
'Elvis' was his real name, and also the real middle name of his father, so, who knows, maybe there were Elvises going right back to the Pilgrim Fathers. They 'misspelled' Elvis's middle name 'Aron', which many take to be a sign that The King lieth not beneath that sod but doth still dwell among us.
It was rather mean of them. While on the subject of popular song, I'm reminded that they even spelled Elvis's name wrong on his tombstone.
ReplyDeleteI love this blog! The Australian fourth estate has turned into a blackboard with nails scraping down it.
ReplyDeleteHave you read Sexually, I'm more of a Switzerland?
Gadjo - was Elvis his real name, by the way?
ReplyDeletequeenwilly - I am very fond of your picture of overgrown barbecue instruments (not to mention the ones of your cat and dog). I haven't read Sexually, I'm more of a Switzerland. I shall seek it out.
'Elvis' was his real name, and also the real middle name of his father, so, who knows, maybe there were Elvises going right back to the Pilgrim Fathers. They 'misspelled' Elvis's middle name 'Aron', which many take to be a sign that The King lieth not beneath that sod but doth still dwell among us.
ReplyDeleteWhereas, as this blog shows, it's actually a sign that, if you don't watch people like hawks, they will lazily think near enough is good enough
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