Tuesday, April 6, 2010

QOTD: Breetish political humor

Don't want to cause any offence here, but if the Prime Minister is implying that "ordinary" means "the norm", then he's misleading us. Brown is Scottish. And he's Scottish in a very Scottish way, what with being "a son of the manse".

The average voter doesn't know what a manse is. How many of you have even laid eyes on one? I haven't, though I'm guessing it looks like a vicarage with a little black cloud hovering over it, raining Calvinist guilt down the chimney. - Damian Thompson

1 comments:

Waldo Lydecker's Journal said...

"Manse" is a very Scots Presbyterian thing. In all the congregations I belonged to in eastern NC as a child, the minister's home was always "the manse."

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