The Children’s Hour

New English Review is proud to introduce a new feature in which we save the finest of Hugh Fitzgerald’s short pieces in the Iconoclast from the previous month and compile them on one page. The following are some of his posts from March 2008.

News Of The Day (Fitzgerald’s 4,000th post at NER)

MWMM Seeks SW In Teheran

I Have a Cornflake That Looks Like Bechuanaland

Linguistic Loosestrife

Form And Content In Two Lines By Edmund Waller

Say Nought The Struggle Nought Availeth

Guerre Aux Cons A Trêve De Bêtises

The Devil Made Me Do It

Silly Acronyms And Useful Ones

Those Useful Acronyms, That “Hat Tip: LNT”

A Vectensian Valedictory

A Depressing Offer Posted Recently On Craigslist

What’s Wrong With Anderson Cooper?


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