Thursday, January 26, 2006

You Again?

Go away. I'm still busy. Go bother Harry Hutton, who exemplifies the paramount virtue to which bloggers, indeed the entire Internet,* should aspire: he amuses me. With posts like this:
ECONOMIST SOCKED ON THE SNEEZER IN FRIDGE ROW
Oh Post 1950s economy,
Why is it that you fill me with such bonhomie?
From the Ode To The Fiscal Structure Of Post-1950s Western Society With Reference To The Works of J. K. Galbraith. Read the whole thing. Or don't- it's no skin off my nose.

I once had a fist fight with JK Galbraith. True story. He was in the Red Lion in Tooting mouthing off about the world economy. “Growth is slowing,” he said, “as the housing market cools and consumers rein in their spending.” Terry the Pole overhears, and comes over from the fruit machine. “Don’t be a cunt," he says. "I’m a consumer, and I just bought a new fridge.” Then he headbutts him.

We all piled on Pole’s side, because he had indeed bought a new fridge.
Incidentally, I happened to read that as I was thinking about naming the blog you're reading, and briefly thought about some combination of 'bonhomie' and 'anomie' until I remembered that that's already been done to perfection. Curiosity drove me nonetheless to anomie, a single-entry blog that would be the ultimate marriage of title and content if there weren't genuine sadness alongside the weltschmerz. www.bonhomie.com, as you would expect,
dedicates itself to the world of plastics. Bonhomie represents the best manufacturers of plastic processing machinery, moulds, ancillary equipment and plastic products for export from India. Thousands of these moulds and machines are operating with satisfied moulders all over the globe.

Like Harry Hutton, Bonhomie Enterprises demonstrates the right and proper use of the Internet.

*This phrase is an example of false palindrome.

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