Thursday, December 10, 2009

Fighting Monkey - No Gun

Battle of the Bulldog and the Monkey
Maccacco and Hapless Hound

Up at first light to the maniacal and strangled crowing of roosters; this woke up the neighbouring dogs and I thought grimly of the famous fighting monkey, Jacco Macacco. Jacco's 1820's trick in the Westminster Pit involved taking a club to the heads of proto-pit bulls and destroying them, much to the dismay of their unfortunate backers. Macacco met his match in Puss, a savage brute that equalled the vicious monkey's ferocity; they did for each other. But don't misunderstand me, I'm not an advocate of monkey baiting.

Anyway, after getting over vengeful thoughts viz. backyard menagerie, managed to get to the stables, say Morning Prayer and have an equine workout - attempted a flying change and nearly ended up in the air myself - well, pride comes before a fall. Then, after much self-control, just stopped myself from buying a 'comfort gun', namely a nicely sporterised Lee at a reasonable price. Well, it'll be there tomorrow - I hope.

For those interested in unpicking the labourite web of deceit, check out Barking Spider, for a take on recent Anglican goings on have a look at the pretentiously titled 'Quo Vadis Redux'.

God bless,

LSP

6 comments:

All Seeing Eye said...

I agree about the name being pretentious. There's a think-tank just been launched in the UK with a Latin name and to be fair that just screams 'self-opinionated twaddle and immodest condescending arrogance' before you even click to go there.

Now by naming my blog in English you've got to actually click on it to find out it's self-opinionated twaddle. That fools everyone once :-)

LSP said...

You're completely right about the Latin thing - Macacco would bludgeon the authour to a grisly death. As it is, I'll have a word...

Always enjoy your blog!

Borepatch said...

Hmmm. So is NuLabor a proto pit bull, or a mad monkey?

LSP said...

Interesting point - I'd say PPB - but then again I'm biased towards the monkey. Resourceful.

Snarky Basterd said...

One can never own enough "comfort" pieces, LSP.

Love the monkey analogy. That would mean Gordoom plays with his own feces.

LSP said...

Terrifying prospect - not unlike "Michelle Obama needs more boob belt"...