"the saltiest sea knows its own way to me..."

[worldofagwu]

well i didn't get rained on at the seaside ( - but it was too cold to go for a paddle )

ITEM! i was slagging off PARKY here the other day, so in the interests of "balance" is a different point of view from the daily mirror's "we love telly!" mag (5-11 may): "Some might say that king of chat Michael "Parky" Parkinson must have been travelling

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[t_guy]

a lager-fuelled fever dream: our boy cat enzo attacked bob dylan's pet pig

Have you been reading many Doc Savage novels recently?

Tim (who just 'scored,' as I believe the young people on the int3rn3t say, fourteen Doc books on ebaY)

[t_guy]

Footnote[1]:

Doc has a cohort of aid(e), among whom are two called Monk and Ham, who spend most of their time squabbling a la Johnny and Ben in the FF. Each has a pet, one monkey and one pig, and the pets squabble amongst themselves to reflect their masters' rivalry.

[1] On the basis that no-one may know what I'm going on about.

[worldofagwu]

i remember the pig but not the monkey - gonfusingly the pig (habeas corpus?) belonged to monk & not ham - and presumably the monkey belongs to ham & not monk...?

Mazed and Gonfused

[t_guy]

Correctimundo!

I am impressed that you remembered the name of Monk's pet pig.

It's not gonfusing if you remember that each has a pet only in order to get the other's goat* - Ham claims that his pet monkey, Chemistry, is Monk's double, and Monk has a pig to remind Ham that he, Ham, was once court-martialled for stealing a truckload of pigs in the war.

The full S. P. (from memory):

Lietenant-Colonel Andrew Blodgett Mayfair is a Chemist known by the nickname 'Monk' who has a pet pig called Habeas Corpus.

Brigadier-General Theodore Marley Brooks is a Lawyer known by the nickname 'Ham' who has a pet monkey called Chemistry.

I wonder if I should review some Doc Savage books on Livejournal?

*None of Doc's crew has a pet goat, I should perhaps add for the sake of clarification.

[crazycrone]

That 'Parky' TV ad comprised of about a million snippets of celebs talking is one of the most excruciatingly irritating EVAH!

[worldofagwu]

i haven't seen that parky promo yet - sounds like i've been lucky