Thursday 2 July 2009

Scotland Yard

No. 12: Discover haunted Britain
No. 13: Find the Loch Ness Monster
No. 14: Play the bagpipes
No. 15: Get royal crest

...Our guide is speaking very seriously for a dude wearing stockings, pantaloons and a feathered cap, and brings us to a wax statue of a man in a black coat and a long beak-like mask.
“The foulis clenger,” our guide intones in a voice that should be accompanied by wiggling fingers, “the brave man who went in after the wretched plague had gripped its victim, sent in to ease their suffering and made to clean out the rotting corpses of the defiled area.”
I refrain from asking this man why, when someone is so horribly afflicted by disease, people would think it wise to send in to the poor soul someone dressed like the bad guy from I Know What You Did Last Summer...

To read the full column follow this link and turn to page 18: http://www.totallyjewish.com/the_jewish_news/view/c-12045/jewish-news-jn-592-20709/?no_login=1



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