The pond always trusts the memes ... and it seems this is just not going to go away ...
Of course that wretched bit of Photoshop is a homage to a handsome bit of pork with James Mason doing the et tu Brutus bit ...
But it's amazing how the Twitterati are full of anti-Turnbull memes ...
No, not that one, silly, that's the leftists who genuinely hate Malware ...
And we know the leftists are just a small minority ...
But enough of a meme-driven recovery, what we need is substance and a refusal to mention the y'artz, and who better to show the way than the bouffant one?
Oh dear ...
Dear sweet long absent lord, this is what passes for political reporting in the lizard of Oz?
Couldn't the bouffant one just have run a meme?
Oh dear, perhaps it's time to revert back for more news of the treacherous Don, though who will kiss his ring?
That's it? That's the whole story?
Cup of tea?
Oh goody goody gumdrops, the pond can play this literary game ...
MOTHER: Would you like a cup of tea, Jimmy?
JIM: Tea? Tea? Is that your answer to it all? Tea? The panacea to the middle class! The answer to all the problems facing mankind today? Have a cup of tea, Jim! You both make me sick. You're dead, both of you. You're both mentally dead. Your souls are drowned in tea. Your minds are clogged up with tea bags. You're like two slop basins swimming around in a sea of tea! Just like this country, the whole rotten system, stained in a tea of apathy!
BROTHER: What's he mean, Mum?
MOTHER: I don't think he wants a cup of tea.
But what's the real point of all this nonsense - well except the immortal Hancock who made a fine living turning absurdity into humour ...
Well it lies in that three word slogan at the very end of the bouffant one's piece:
For the moment ...
Yes, the krakan sleeps with the fishes in the dirty water under the bridge ... for the moment.
And soon enough?
Is the bouffant one pointing to a reckless moment to come?
Well it's been a morning for y'artz as well as incipient conspiracy theories, and the pond is feeling a little light headed by the fairy floss sugary lack of substance of it all, so what better time to acknowledge a correspondent forwarding a link to this piece ...
You can find the story at the Boston Globe here, but is there an irony in all this, apart from the post-modernist ironical fun?
Well yes, because of the geo-targeting of the ads, there was an ad for the reptiles of the Oz sitting alongside the story... the pond kept it in the screen cap so you could enjoy it too ...
The pond can't escape the reptiles, no matter where it goes, no matter what it reads ... which means this protest should be amended ...
Sorry, that should read "God hates the pond ... and has sent a plague of reptiles to torment the pond with fishy tales of Dons and rings and fishes" ...
They are right about Renoir and not being able to paint hands, though.
ReplyDeleteHi Dorothy,
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid I can't share your trust of the memes.
In Bill's play, Casca is the first to stab Caesar, followed by the others, finally ending with Brutus. It is then that Caesar utters his last words "Et tu, Brute - Then fall Caesar"
In the 1953 film, James Mason was indeed Brutus but in the original still above that is Edmond O'Brien as Casca striking the first blow against Julius Caesar played by Louis Calhern.
Sorry for the pedantry, it's a curse.
DiddyWrote
Yes indeed DW and Brutus actually stabbed Caesar from the front, in the stomach and it was very wrong of the pond to downgrade Casca simply because he was played by the wretched Edmond O'Brien and the pond has always been madly intoxicated by James Mason and his wonderful voice, and wanted to run a photo of Jim, but the meme wouldn't allow ...
DeleteBut happily pedantry is never a curse, or if it is, then it is to be devoutly wished that at some point the reptiles of Oz might be so cursed ... and thus blessed.