Bad Machinery by John Allison for March 21, 2022

I’m assuming it’s the terrible grinding conflict in the steamy tropical jungles of the Isle of Man that Granpa Joe is envisioning being pressed into.

Wait, going to university was a way to avoid or just a way to delay the unavoidable?

Joe and Jo got divorced because it was too hard to figure out which was which— like Evelyn Waugh and his wife, Evelyn.

quiff /kwif/

noun BRITISH quiff; plural noun: quiffs

A piece of hair, especially on a man, brushed upward and backward from the forehead.

“A boy with a floppy quiff.”