Molesworth, Geoffrey Willans
Terms from Down with Skool!, How to be Topp, Whizz for Atomms and Back in the Jug Agane (all published in the 1950s) that seemed vaguely familiar...
- Hogwarts
- wizard wheezes
- Scrimgeour
- 'hem hem.'
I expected this to be a juvenile Flashman. It's not. Down with Skool! was funny, but the others just harp on the same one-note song. The only reason I kept on was for the delightfully obvious Nigel/Fotherington-Tomas backslash. The dialect is hard to decipher, but it's nothing to Trainspotting, so.
The idea of boarding school as a place where you forget your family and 'tuough' up struck a chord, mind you. My therapist was worried about my total dissociation from how utterly, bitterly miserable I was in boarding school. It's much nicer to think of independent, strong-minded little fifteen-year olds swaggering around, having midnight feasts and planning to rob the National Gallery or whatever.
And I still don't know what the fuck 'chiz' means.
Some funny quotes:
Anyway his favourite charakter is little lord fauntleroy and when i sa he hav a face like a tomato he repli i forgive you molesworth for thoes uncouth words.
What is that? molesworth for the last time your opinion that it is soppy to atack a ditch does not interest me.
young Elizabethans - this just made me lol at the thought that current Britons could be regarded as 'new Elizabethans.' Would they like that, I wonder.
The prunes had been brought from the prune country where they lived hapily tuoughing each other up and indulging in cotage industries.
Personaly i think no gorgonzola is wroth sending for the manager but it must be diferent i supose when you are 723.
[Oliver] Twist: Come on come on. This is the welfare state. Give us a couple also some free milk and orange juice, a corset, some false teeth, old age pension, forecast for the pools, 20 poems by w. auden, six beetles, a pencil sharpner and anything else you have in yore poket.
This is only one side of a horse so it hav only two legs, one ear and one eye. However, most horses are aproximately the same on the other side and if they are not it s not safe to hav a fluter on them.
Library tomorrow, whee!
Previously, on Book Glomp 2009:
He Knew He Was Right, Anthony Trollope
The Bostonians, Henry James
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
For Esme - with Love and Squalor, JD Salinger
The Outsider, Albert Camus
The Princess Diaries: Ten out of Ten, Meg Cabot
The Vicar of Bullhampton, Anthony Trollope
Terms from Down with Skool!, How to be Topp, Whizz for Atomms and Back in the Jug Agane (all published in the 1950s) that seemed vaguely familiar...
- Hogwarts
- wizard wheezes
- Scrimgeour
- 'hem hem.'
I expected this to be a juvenile Flashman. It's not. Down with Skool! was funny, but the others just harp on the same one-note song. The only reason I kept on was for the delightfully obvious Nigel/Fotherington-Tomas backslash. The dialect is hard to decipher, but it's nothing to Trainspotting, so.
The idea of boarding school as a place where you forget your family and 'tuough' up struck a chord, mind you. My therapist was worried about my total dissociation from how utterly, bitterly miserable I was in boarding school. It's much nicer to think of independent, strong-minded little fifteen-year olds swaggering around, having midnight feasts and planning to rob the National Gallery or whatever.
And I still don't know what the fuck 'chiz' means.
Some funny quotes:
Anyway his favourite charakter is little lord fauntleroy and when i sa he hav a face like a tomato he repli i forgive you molesworth for thoes uncouth words.
What is that? molesworth for the last time your opinion that it is soppy to atack a ditch does not interest me.
young Elizabethans - this just made me lol at the thought that current Britons could be regarded as 'new Elizabethans.' Would they like that, I wonder.
The prunes had been brought from the prune country where they lived hapily tuoughing each other up and indulging in cotage industries.
Personaly i think no gorgonzola is wroth sending for the manager but it must be diferent i supose when you are 723.
[Oliver] Twist: Come on come on. This is the welfare state. Give us a couple also some free milk and orange juice, a corset, some false teeth, old age pension, forecast for the pools, 20 poems by w. auden, six beetles, a pencil sharpner and anything else you have in yore poket.
This is only one side of a horse so it hav only two legs, one ear and one eye. However, most horses are aproximately the same on the other side and if they are not it s not safe to hav a fluter on them.
Library tomorrow, whee!
Previously, on Book Glomp 2009:
He Knew He Was Right, Anthony Trollope
The Bostonians, Henry James
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
For Esme - with Love and Squalor, JD Salinger
The Outsider, Albert Camus
The Princess Diaries: Ten out of Ten, Meg Cabot
The Vicar of Bullhampton, Anthony Trollope
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