A Spoonerism is the interchanging of the first consonants of two words, after the Reverend Archie Spooner who was much…
It is sad when a figure one has revered and who died some time ago, is revealed not to have been quite as grand as one would have loved to continue to believe them to be. Charles Dickens’ views on Jews and “ savages”, as he calls
In “Casablanca”, an elderly Jewish couple are in Rick’s café. We hardly notice
them. They are no doubt apprehensive about being picked up by the Vichy Police, and are waiting for something, possibly to be rescued. This is the 3-line dialogue between…