Grocers Wake

Or: East of Calais & South of Eden

Or: Crotches!  Foiled* Again!

Or: Airport Insecurity

 

I had forgotten that cucumbers* (which also played a role in the scene in which "Otter" meets the Dean's wife in a grocer's** produce section the National Lampoon's Animal House: "Mine's bigger.") were so rich in iron as to set off a metal detector.   Another line from Spinal Tap which comes squirmingly to mind is:  Nigel: "We've got, you know, armadillos in our trousers. I mean, it's really quite frightening."

 

A couple of decades or so ago I bought a stuffed armadillo at an outdoor souk in Tijuana before realizing that it reeked of formaldehyde; kept it the backyard.  Even the Brits need not be reminded by rolling these words of (little) wit into little balls that armadillos share a behaviour with hedgehogs which, if the diminishing number seen as road kill is any indication, seem to be disappearing just when the English are turning their, in this time of rising food prices, once again, as hinted on this site, to.

 

Given the shenanigans going on in First World airport security, one wonders (well, this one does, anyway) if bribes are de rigueur at airports in such notoriously corrupt countries as Nigeria.  Older generations (one of which I belong to) had their first (remembered -that is, Siggy) exposure to both the female breast and to Africa in pawing through the pages of The National Geographic.  Which led by way of a commodious cup to Africa begins at nipples."  (When I mentioned the better known truism a few decades ago to a pathology resident (Hugh would have remembered his name had he been there, but alas, I did not) whose father was said to be well-known philosopher in Italy, he replied, "No; Africa begins at Rome." I suspect that while that might sit well with the Northern League, Hugh and the Romans would not agree)

 

*-Oops; so it was a foil-wrapped zucchini; so sue me

 

 

** grocer's -also see grocers' and greengrocers' - which are not quite in every sense of the term, examples of what? The NER bios of MJ and EW suggest that they know the answer, as do many others on account of having read (which I have not) of an account, not of a cucumber, but a koala, both dangerous and rude.  Answers (or -shudder -corrections) on a storefront window, please.
 

decisions, revisions....it should have read "...turning their fancies..."

Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy (ht Le Pen & Stimpy); no Googlethwartts for "Africa begins at nipples."