Recently Evangeline van Holsteren began moping around the Olde Entomologist and being "out of sorts", even banishing Greenish Hugh from the carpark for being "unhygienic". Partly, that is precisely Greenish Hugh but it was felt it was best not to argue.
Eventually the flying barstools and "trousers-on" raids became too repressive and an anonymous note using words cut from magazines was glued to Little Tim's hand asking "Wot's up with you? Two for one Tuesday at Willie Shrimp's house of Beef Substitute"
So it came out that the van Holsteren family would be reunioning and Evangeline was unsure what to wear to the saturday night "Political Systems, Science and Willie Shrimp meetballs, evening".
Oh! we vouchsafed, why did you not say? Immediately ideas began to pour out and within 5 hours we had "nice floral hat" written down.
Needless to say the marketing people at Riddled Industry stepped up to the mark and produced a very Evangeline costume.
With Greenish Hugh and Little Tim to push the tableau into the hall we are sure Evangeline will be the winner, the hard bit will be to get the gear off her, what with having
I must say the Tablets of Justice (now with a reading light) are pretty jazzy.
6 comments:
That's a fancy flashlight!
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Also, I'm liking the verb "vouchsafed".
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How many shrimp willies does one need per meatball?
I dream of being this incomprehensible
The best thing about a floral hat is that it cuts down on one's carbon footprint.
one's carbon footprint
I find the phrase "carbon sequestration" to be more elegant and less pejorative than "bodies in the basement".
That's a fancy flashlight!
Thank you, I am often told that, wait you said flashlight.
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