tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2682207550919196905.post3093769225455446897..comments2023-08-01T03:43:16.312-07:00Comments on The Daily Scorch: One Step Forwards, Two Steps BackMrs Boyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04747278401077565354noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2682207550919196905.post-62367470825785920112009-01-03T14:02:00.000-08:002009-01-03T14:02:00.000-08:00Daphne, Arianrhod was most impressed by Dr Maroon....Daphne, Arianrhod was most impressed by Dr Maroon. She has started to impersonate him, and Boyo hopes to turn it into a circus act.<BR/><BR/>Gadjo, you might want to ask what the neighbouring villagers do to the pig that its meat tastes so sweet.Mrs Boyohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04747278401077565354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2682207550919196905.post-34232140786330158882009-01-03T11:24:00.000-08:002009-01-03T11:24:00.000-08:00I wish you'd told me you wanted an animal for Aria...I wish you'd told me you wanted an animal for Arianrhod, I'd have left Maroon with you.Daphne Wayne-Boughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10581048408996935564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2682207550919196905.post-72906420238434596222008-12-18T18:16:00.000-08:002008-12-18T18:16:00.000-08:00Thanking you again, Mrs! Note, howewver, that is j...Thanking you again, Mrs! Note, howewver, <B>that is just the story that Mrs Dilo is telling the pig</B>: it's going to get its head and all its bits chopped for Christmas, but superstition has it that its meat tastes sweeter if it visits a neighbouring village just before this happens.<BR/><BR/>Everybody knows that Ukraine is the cradle of Slavdom; the Poles, as ever, are trying to mussle in with their cheap plumbers and their degraded vowel sounds.Gadjo Dilohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08998278830936531990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2682207550919196905.post-35704868253772137882008-12-18T16:49:00.000-08:002008-12-18T16:49:00.000-08:00D-na Dilo's hog would be most welcome. Arianrhod i...D-na Dilo's hog would be most welcome. Arianrhod is never happier than when parading about our neighbours' patios on some half-tamed beast, but Boyo's back has been giving him trouble. He also slobbers on the bit, which I have to clean.<BR/><BR/>Stan-is-LAV-iw would be correct, Gyppo, with the "w" representing the soft "v/b" of Latin-American Spanish. Boyo often mistakes Polish for a language, when it is in fact merely Ukrainian as spoken through a cleft palate.Mrs Boyohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04747278401077565354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2682207550919196905.post-23217348976020739192008-12-17T08:32:00.000-08:002008-12-17T08:32:00.000-08:00If I recall my night of terrifying boredom with Bo...If I recall my night of terrifying boredom with Boyo in the social club bar correctly, Mrs B, would that be pronounced Stanislaoowoow?Gyppo Byardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08823690986571629011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2682207550919196905.post-7717614174552951232008-12-16T02:35:00.000-08:002008-12-16T02:35:00.000-08:00Thanking you kindly, Mrs Boyo. Mrs Dilo asks can s...Thanking you kindly, Mrs Boyo. Mrs Dilo asks can she bring her pig when she comes to stay with you - apparantly it's been feeling a bit peaky and she thinks a change of scenery might do it good.<BR/><BR/>Ah, you're from the <I>Stanislaviv</I> faction. Good for you. Best thing the Poles ever did. Which isn't saying much.Gadjo Dilohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08998278830936531990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2682207550919196905.post-68822870174337427852008-12-15T07:14:00.000-08:002008-12-15T07:14:00.000-08:00How charming, Byard. You are channelling my husban...How charming, Byard. You are channelling my husband. The last person to do that was sacked from their position in the Tywyn Abbatoir.<BR/><BR/>I am delighted to hear your daughter is caring for the orang-utan, which I believe still has the vote in Dutch Borneo. Into what type of furniture does she plan to have it fashioned?<BR/><BR/>Gadjo, my father has a selection of experiments that failed to meet his exacting standards in his <I>donjon</I> in Stanislaviv (we will <I>never</I> say Ivano-Franksiv'sk). D-na Dilo is welcome to enter Hutsul territory and interview them.<BR/><BR/>Mr Bananas, Lord Curzon strikes me as being the sort of man England may still produce, but keeps on a reservation in Scotland for use in national emergencies.Mrs Boyohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04747278401077565354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2682207550919196905.post-59315817056716261462008-12-14T00:57:00.000-08:002008-12-14T00:57:00.000-08:00Oddly enough, Mrs Boyo, at around 5 am this mornin...Oddly enough, Mrs Boyo, at around 5 am this morning the Boyo-like phrase "extreme football, played in Bengal using as the ball the bladder of a tiger. A <I>live</I> tiger..." flitted into what passes for my brain at that time of day.<BR/><BR/>My own daughter adopted an orang-utan via the same scheme for Christmas a couple of years ago.Gyppo Byardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08823690986571629011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2682207550919196905.post-3437019943567560532008-12-13T23:38:00.000-08:002008-12-13T23:38:00.000-08:00Britain in it's hour of need will be grateful for ...Britain in it's hour of need will be grateful for the likes of young Arianrhod. Incidentally, Mrs Dilo is interested in all things dead-animal, and is currently on the seach for a brown bearskin rug, preferably with the rictusing head still on it.Gadjo Dilohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08998278830936531990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2682207550919196905.post-11779855913917011582008-12-13T13:21:00.000-08:002008-12-13T13:21:00.000-08:00Well, sod the tigers, what they have ever done for...Well, sod the tigers, what they have ever done for us primates?<BR/><BR/>"We shall support the tiger like the rope supports the hanged man."<BR/><BR/>George Nathaniel Curzon (1899)Gorilla Bananashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13044093013423635830noreply@blogger.com