Honestly! I google 'Nursery Rhymes' because I'm thinking I might ruin a few for people by adapting them, just for something to do. Up comes 'Baa Baa Black Sheep'. I click on that to get the rhyme, and it takes me straight to a website featuring Italian women in skimpy underwear and a big flashing message saying, 'I am Lolita and if you call me right now, we can do lots of sexy talk.' Well, Lolita, I am Fran, and if I called you right now, I'm afraid sexy talk would not be on the agenda, but just to pep up your night, I could run you through the basics of semicolons, the apostrophe, and the difference between the active and passive voice. Hey! Am I onto something here? If I set up a chatline, offering advice on grammar, but in a husky-husky voice, would I get many takers? I could give it a go, because I've just had a cold, and am at that stage where you sound like a woman in a Bond movie, until, that is, you start coughing like a woman in a...
If you ever considered starting another blog, then maybe, 'The Flip-side of Fran'?
ReplyDeleteYes, Martin - the flip-side of flippant Fran. I do like a bit of affliperation.
ReplyDeleteGood words.
ReplyDeleteThe human herd gets it's priorities very wrong sometimes.
You are ace!
ReplyDeleteOn my way over there to take a look.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Charlotte. I like your phrase 'the human herd'. Says it all!
ReplyDeleteBB - thank you kindly. I value your opinion.
Alan - have a good journey!
That's lovely, Fran. Says it all, really. In this week's Times there was a two-page spread of the terrible famine, followed by a page devoted to the woman (who earns millions herself) who "needs" $65,000 dollars a month in her divorce settlement for chauffeurs for her one child, manicures, pedicures, clothes...It makes you weep.
ReplyDeleteYes... progress is moot point when people are still starving due to abject poverty.
ReplyDeleteOff to check it out!
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