7 Things Overheard Last Week

1. "Push a goat to the wall and the goat will fight back. Push a Nigerian to the wall and he will go into the wall."
-sad expression broadcasted recently on an African oppression forum on BBC Radio 4

2. "The way to freedom from terrorism will always be the road back from Baghdad."
-Times columnist, day after 7th July 2005, on the London bombings

3. "Two tears in a bucket, motherfuck it."
-Lady Chablis, playin herself in Clint Eastwood's "Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil", on how to deal with life's agony

4. "I can't believe it! Something's actually happening in Yorkshire!"
-local barman's reaction to the revelations about the Yorkshire bombers who are allegedly involved in the London bombings

5. "Pukimak that old lady!"
-Bob's initial reaction after escaping a near-death motoring accident along Jalan Damansara

6. "I'll make sure you win your bet this time."
-an estranged ex-girlfriend of a friend, who insists that "this time it's over" despite my colossal losses throughout their tumultuous affair

7. "That would be GBP18.50 for the sight test and your two pairs of contact lenses are complimentary."
-a Specsavers receptionist, educating me on the UK's 'free treatment, astronomical diagnosis' eyecare market. (yes i'm a complete muppet)

ciao.

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Word Of The Wolf today is fealty \FEE-uhl-tee\,

noun:
1. Fidelity to one's lord; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord.
2. The oath by which this obligation was assumed.
3. Fidelity; allegiance; faithfulness.

"In today's times of Parliament sovereignty where the role of the Monarchy is largely ceremonial, I long for the good old days of queenly fealty, the Romanticist fool that I am."
_________________________________________________________ Fealty comes from Old French fealté, from Latin fidelitas, "fidelity," from fidelis, "faithful," from fides, "faith," from fidere, "to trust."