We do not normally concern ourselves with whether posts and comments to this blog may prove abusive, vitriolic or significantly off-topic. While we do not necessarily encourage these sins of being human, all too human, we weigh them as far less repulsive than treating the commentary of our Authors and commenters as collective pastry bag contents to be squeezed and sculpted to predetermined ends of our own choosing.
There is, however, that rare exception that threatens even the most enlightened of civilizations and the discourses that sustain them, to whit, the possibility that someone, beyond the bounds of all decency and mental order, may suddenly and unpredictably elect to shout “Ni!”.
I am sorry, but as Administrator of this blog I am constrained by my duty to preemptively shut down this thread to prevent just such an abomination from occurring.
Thank you all in advance for your generosity in understanding.
H. M. Stuart
Alexandria
Darnit, Elizabeth, now you have me mourning the lost opportunity to post a comment that a muppet is no authority on porridge.
Franklin my dear,
It is my deepest wish that such an opportunity will yet present itself! I will do my utmost Over There to set you up, if necessary.
that a puppet is no authority on marriage
Well, if the puppet is Punch, of the Punch and Judy shows, then I’ll agree with him.
For other puppets, I’ll reserve judgment until I hear what they have to say.