Friday, June 12, 2009


THE CORRIDORS OF CONTEMPLATION AND CONVERSATION

I must come clean. I did do me bits of soul-searching and clarification. It will be clear to you all that I, The Zola, have returned as a better person.

14 comments:

zola a social thing said...

Now we know who writes the speeches for Gordon Brown.

Zola you will not fool me again.

zola a social thing said...

That was NOT me !

anticant said...

Zola in the Groves of Academe!

Did you lecture on a postmodernist theme?

Or perhaps indulge a post-Gordon dream?

Bodwyn Wook said...

I think it must have a nice stroll in the quad with Chaplain Katz!

MerkinTheCompereDotCom said...

I am reliably informed that Mr Zola was actually coaching Ms Blears on how to apologise with grace.

Sadly, it hasn't worked and she is now to be got to a nunnery.

anticant said...

Hazel Blears is a disgrace. I doubt whether any convent would admit her - except possibly the Leaping Nuns of St. Beryl immortalised by Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.

It is more likely that the monastic establishment depicted is a (The) Priory, and Zola was perhaps coaching Susan Boyle on coping with the surrealist postmodern world of instant celebrity in preparation for her White House warblings on the Fourth of July.

We await the outcome sith interest.

Merkin said...

Sometimes, I think that Anti is not one of us - he seems to be in the loop with very good connections!

anticant said...

You want the best loops and the best connections? Zola-Ink-Spots has them. (Especially the loopiness).

That's why I like it here. As for being "one of us", remarks like that make me suspect that Merkin is Margaret Thatcher in drag.

I claim my £5.

Merkin said...

Well, at least I never said 'one of them'!

In Glasgow they are already having parties for Thatcher - and that just for a broken arm.

anticant said...

I don't think that Lady T belongs to the Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot class that any decent person would wish dead. Or even to the intermediate Bush/Cheney class that some of us wouldn't grieve for.

A little charitableness wouldn't come amiss, Merkin. Like me, Lady Thatcher is old and frail. And unlike me, she has dementia. Pathetic, really, when you recall how strong minded she was (for good or ill - some of both, IMHO).

Christ Church Porter said...

I'll not have a bad word said about Master Spots. Nor his father, or his grandfather for that matter, (although they had a few more manners when knocking me up after a night of too much port and loose Cowley women). And, by the way, Thatcher went to a far inferior establishment up in the North. Of Oxford. Now speed you all to your rooms.

anticant said...

Christ Church Porter, you remind me of a vulgar limerick about your colleague at St John's College, Cambridge, offering his daughter to some randy undergraduates as a substitute for the local swans (reserved for the dons), but I wouldn't dream of sullying the new-found purity of this esteemed site by repeating it.

anticant said...

By 'colleague' I of course meant 'opposite number'.

zola a social thing said...

In my darker moods I would have banned all mention of the Milk Snatcher and the Blaterites. However after my rehab within the corridors of contemplation and conversation I will allow the nasy name Maggie Thatcher to be mentioned on this site.
You see I have returned as a far nicer fellow and better person.

So no more trying to fuck with Thatcher on this site.
She is armless now anyway.

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