All Entries Tagged With: "journalism"
A Glimmer Of Hope
Just when Miss Mussel was about to enter the depths of despair regarding her career choice on a more permanent basis, Musical America brings news that Anne Midgette has been hired as chief classical music critic at the Washington Post. She’s been interim chief there since January of this year after Tim Page [...]
Twelve Lords-a-Leaping
“I’d like to say that I believe in God but as a thinking person who cares about the world around him there are two very good reasons why I simply can’t. A) Wasps. Can’t see the point of a wasp, can you? Absolutely pointless. B) Caviar. I mean, really, what is the [...]
Nine Drummers Drumming
“You see, MI6’s view is that if you know exactly what every single person in the world is going to do at any given time, we’ll be able to anticipate what they’ll do next but, as you can imagine, the paperwork is absolutely monstrous.”
Day 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Eight Maids-a-Milking
“We always use maids, Filipina maids, working in teams of eight. Seven on each team were employed by me secretly milking up to a hundred cows each night. The other one worked for my father doing any secret washing up, secret hoovering and so on, as he felt needed doing.”
Day 1, 2, 3, 4, [...]
Seven Swans-a-Swimming
“Fraud is really in the eye of the receiver isn’t it. What I was doing was not so much fraud as teaching people a lesson.”
Day 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Six Geese-a-Laying
“The Streeb-Greeblings for some genetic reasons have been blessed with fourteen toes, so obviously having one missing here or there doesn’t make a blime bit of difference. In fact it probably saved me a fortune in later years as I was going to have it done cosmetically on the National Health. So really a [...]
