schplog

The Gentleman sighed as he entered the drawing room. As he glanced wearily about the disheveled premises he grasped at a nearby sturdy Pole for support. Why was it so difficult to retain reliable Domestics in these times? He trod briskly across the rumpled Persian lying on the floor and – shooing off a sleepy Siamese – collapsed into the sofa. As he lifted his heavy boots to rest upon a well padded Ottoman, he draped an elaborately embroidered Afghan across his sturdy shoulders and loosened his Thai. Summoning a fragrant Cuban from the hidden chest in the wall, the Gentleman began to relax. The Domestic situation was perhaps not so bad as all of that, after all. He struck a match and raised his tall pink Highball glass in a Toast: There will always be an England!

“Pride and Prejudice

Is my favorite book,” said Tom

Ostentatiously.

“Shakespeare is the best!

I really dig his sonnets,”

Said Tom willfully.

What kind of tea is consumed by families of contortionist circus performers to stay in shape (primarily the nieces and the uncles, of course)?

Flexibili-tea (primarily for the knees and the ankles, of course)

Upon my word, the 200th post!

Thus far we have schplogged (mostly successfully):
emperors (with and without clothes)
foods of various types
tom swifty haikus

Not to mention various other little pun-oriented bitlets.
Ah, the wordishness of it all!

Just as we did with schplog #100, we are determined not to say anything even remotely funny in this historical post. Every hundred or so we give you a break.

Enjoy it while it lasts.

Back in the olden days it used to be that eggs (or was it chickens?) were tremendously costly and only consumed on special occasions.

Hence the old-timey proverb:

A young hen is quite the bargain,
an omelet is worth the eggs-pence,
but chicken fricassee is just plain eggs-travagant

What type of decaffineited tea is great as an antidote for dehydration?

Fluidi-tea

I know we already schplogged the Dreyfuss affair, but perhaps you didn’t know that Captain Alfred Dreyfus was passionate about food. And much as he loved French food, we was even fonder of specialty dishes from their neighbors to the south, Morocco and Tunisia.

Much later, after the gross unfairness of the trial and the anti-semitism involved became common knowledge, a local restaurant celebrated Dreyfus with a dish called J’accuse-cous-cous.

You can lead a horse to a sewing machine but that doesn’t make it so.

Which knight of the round table was a closet dancer with a predilection for Cajun beats, who would only dance at night?

Sir Cadian Rhythms