Sinister: Anteaters

[Rob Butler]

I wouldn't bother reading this if I were you...

>...Then progressing to Regent's park, right next to the
>elephant enclosure.

And the anteater enclosure.  Which is much better than the elephant 
enclosure, even though they don't put on a big show washing the anteaters.  
I'm not sure you're allowed to do this, but I'm going to bring some food to 
throw through the bars for the anteaters... I wonder what they eat?  
Seriously though, anteaters ROCK!  Particularly giant ones.  And pangolins.  
But as for those bloody Golden Lion Tamarins.  Every third cage in the 
nocturnal zone contains a few of these buggers.  They all need shooting, if 
you ask me.

>Bring bouze and stuff.

Am I the only one who spells it BOOZE?  Like OOZE.  'Bouze' sounds camp.

>Indie is NOT a word.  check chambers.  D'oh is a word.

Indie IS a word.  Check Chambers.  I just did.  Being a sad crossword buff, 
I check Chambers nearly every day, and regularly notice 'indie' whilst 
perusing for various obscure neologisms and archaisms.  As for d'oh, 
apparently it was first used in the Jennings novels (by Anthony Buckridge, I 
think??), spoken regularly by one of the teachers, who said it more like 
this: 'Dooohhhhhhh' - hence the chap whose name is on the tip of my tongue 
but which I can't quite remember but wrote the Simpsons, uses an apostrophe 
comme ca: D'oh.  And that's true that is, he genuinely acknowledges that 
that's where it came from - well, that and a Laurel and Hardy film which 
also used the word.

God I'm a mine of trivia today aren't I?  I really should get out more.

Speaking of which, see some of youse at the pic-a-nic-a tomorrow.  I promise 
not to be four hours late this time.  But might go to the zoo first.  They 
have anteaters!

Rob

PS.  Indie: (ind-i) (informal) n.  An independent record company, esp one 
that produces music outside the mainstream of popular music; also, an 
independent film or television production company. - Also adj.

PPS.  What's the name of that book about the horse in Czechoslovakia?  The 
Llew Llist of B&S books reminded me - I'm sure I read somewhere about this 
book, and thought.  Hurley's having dreams, of course, I wondered what that 
mad Scottish nutter was wittering on about.

PPPS.  Still looking for a few fabric songs for my pub quiz, which I'm 
giving next week.  No Felt, too obscure.  I've come up with Velvet 
Underground, Suede, Knights in white satin, and a few others.  Help!

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