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Friday, February 11, 2011

Keeping the Tadpoles under Our Hats

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It now seems – according to recently-published research conducted on behalf of the UN – that we have been paying far too much attention to the tadpoles. Therefore, from here on in, I will not mention them again, that is as long as we all remember to keep them under our hats… as usual.

Still, these days you don’t seem to get as many of the things we get less of these days, at least according to our fallible memories. There was a time when we had all the things we had, and a large bucket to put them in, but we were young then and we still thought that novelty socks were a remarkable achievement of Western civilisation. Oh, if only we had realised at the time, we would not have been so proud of our grouting trowels.

Back then though there was quiche aplenty and the delights of smearing salad dressing across each other’s naked flesh as the sun set over the plastic mouldings factory on the far horizon.

Still, at least, nowadays we do not have to mention the tadpoles, but there remains the problem of pointing out that we are not mentioning them without mentioning them, especially if we have them balanced precariously on our heads underneath our hats.

Sometimes I think our apparent need for excessive bureaucracy involving itself in the minutia of our lives is not as beneficial as some would have us believe.

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