Frazz by Jef Mallett for March 15, 2016

Let me tell you, burst whitefish is no walk in the park.

I wish I had a white fish sandwich from the other side of the Bridge…Yummmmmmm!

Or overcomplicate it. .I appeal, beg, beseech, pray, desire, solicit, petition you to reconsider that opinion.

When I’m at a burr site, I leave.

We were in the habit of referring to our female dog as “bitch” when our young nephew, maybe four years old, was visiting. We were trying hard not to use language his mother wouldn’t approve of. At one point my wife did an emergency self-correction into pig latin: “Itch-bay”. Nephew, unfamiliar with the word “bay”, heard it as “Itch bag”.

“Itch-bag” became one of our pet names for that dog for the rest of her life.

The danger lies when those with a poorer vocabulary misunderstand and misconstrue the meaning, as witness the controversy that arose a couple of years ago when a public figure complained about stinginess by describing an allotment (correctly) as “a niggardly amount.”

Puts me in mind of Baldric on Black Adder writing his “magnificent octopus”.