New Adventures of Queen Victoria by Pab Sungenis for August 20, 2010

Oh, but Your Majesty ! You are !

Which Mohammed? the p-whipped mama’s boy who needed a sword to convert people to his ripped off religion? Or the ones driving Rolls & Bentleys and banging blondes, while their neighbors starve? Or the ones who stupidly blow up people & themselves, hoping to get laid in Paradise?

Yeah, they are not amusing.

MORON ALERT! MORON ALERT! Oh, heck, I’m too late.

Classic Victoria.

Her Majesty may not be amusing, but her store certainly is.

jukeofurl, you have a point there.

3 points actually!

Nice portrait. Pab should use it more often.

“Kerfuffel”. Is there a funnier word?

Personally, I found yesterday’s “Monarch Song” extremely amusing!

@ Sheik - yes, quite, especially when one tries to wear any of it.

..killing someone over a cartoon seemed silly until I read one too many Calvin & Hobbes rerun…

@ pschearer - Yes. At least 2 that I know of - spork and spatterdash.

Kerfuffel. Spork. Kerfuffel. Spork.

Nope, “kerfuffel” is funnier.

And neither Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate nor American Heritage Dictionary 4th Ed. know any “spatterdash”. Did Rotifer mean “spatterdock”? That’s not funny at all. Don’t make me drag out my OED.

“The Wordnik Word of the Day for August 18, 2010 is gamashes A protection for the shoes, hose, etc., from mud and rain, worn especially by horsemen in the seventeenth century. They appear to have been sometimes of the nature of boots and sometimes of the nature of leggings. Also gamaches.

‘Gamashes’ come from the Italian, ‘gamba,’ meaning ‘leg,’ and are also known as … [wait for it] …

’spatterdashes.’

Example: ‘By it are boots of all sizes, buskins, gamashes, brodkins, gambadoes, shoes, pumps, slippers, and every cobbled ware wrought and made steadable for the use of man.’ Gargantua and Pantagruel, by Francois Rabelais”

My heart wanders through Victoria’s Secret. My mind minds itself.