Monthly Archive: January 2024

Clint and the silly King Cnut

Clint, as in Eastwood, the actor, film director and producer, is the abbreviation of the first name Clinton, like Dick is for Richard. A dick, as a male appendage, can...

The ball is in your frying pan now

Harare, Zimbabwe Language, they say, is a wonderful thing, a moveable feast of expression and misunderstanding. An advert in our paper said: SOFIA. Only $849.99. A flight to the Bulgarian...

Folly through a looking glass

  Sudan skyline, 2024   Back In Vietnam, an estimated 3 million people died over a decade, most of them civilians. Some 280,000 US-allied forces, about 58,000  American soldiers among...