"At last. I have been waiting a year for this moment. I must apologise to you all. Twelve months ago, in this very organ, nay in this very diary, I noted that we were now in the hazy, lazy, crazy days between Boxing Day and New Year and thus wished you all a happy Christmas perineum. It should have been, of course, Merryneum."
"It has been bothering me ever since. I can only put it down to post-turkey malaise. If it helps, it is only while Googling around this subject to write this entry that I have realised that the nickname taint for the fleshly rather than festive part under discussion refers to the fact that 't ain't the front, t ain't the back. I think perhaps I knew this at some level but hadn't consciously made the connection."
A mistaken seasonal greeting was corrected from an awkward phrasing to Merryneum and attributed to post-turkey malaise. Research into the slang 'taint' reveals its root in the phrase 't ain't the front, t ain't the back,' clarifying the anatomical nickname. The between-time after Boxing Day and before New Year is identified as Twixtmas rather than Twixmas, with chocolate consumption during the interval merely incidental. John Lewis is portrayed as a de facto members' club that has formalised membership with a new lounge, exemplifying how retail spaces function as social clubs where purchases mask communal rituals of comfort and belonging.
Read at www.theguardian.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]