"Mothers spoke its name with reverential awe and dragged their offspring, ballasted with boredom, to worship at the all-cotton jumper altar and gaze at the pleated skirts and shiny blousons with the adoration of the Magi for the Messiah. Implausible statistics were accepted as gospel - the most famous being something about how 15 out of 10 women bought their knickers from M&S in case they got knocked down and were refused hospital treatment on the grounds that if you didn't buy your underwear from the crypto-ecclesiastical emporium you were a skanky ho who didn't deserve the NHS resources. "
An occasional glimpse into the workings of the Scottish Parliament and the Scottish Executive (or comments on anything else that takes my fancy).
25 May 2005
So where do you buy your underwear?
In The Guardian, a rather premature obituary for M&S. But amusingly done, for example:
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