So, of course, I had to go and look it up. And while his first name is quite boring, his middle name is Antonio! Now he's conflated in my head with Antonio Banderas, and I'm imagining a version of Once Upon A Time In Mexico with slow-motion snooker frames alongside the gunfire. I think it's something to do with the black and white outfits.
Perhaps Gwendolen went on to win the Women's World Championships? All those times when everyone thought she was bunking off games and really she was just practising her trickshots.
I once met a transsexual who introduced herself as "Vron". It was really quite painfully obvious that she had originally been a Ron, of the sort who sits behind tables in pubs nearly pushing them over with his belly and discussing the week's tabloid scandals over a steadily increasing clutch of empty pint glasses.
I only recently discovered that Hieronymus was Latin for Jerome, and I was deeply satisfied to work out the etymological progression from Hieronymus to Hieron'mu to Ierom to Jerome. It pleases me in some profound way every time I think about it.
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Date: 2007-12-12 07:43 am (UTC)I'm also thinking about St Clare's, and wondering whether he's connected with the twins or Alison.
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Date: 2007-12-13 10:12 pm (UTC)I bet she didn't really want to go to finishing school in Switzerland; she wanted to go on the snooker circuit.
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Date: 2007-12-12 12:39 pm (UTC)*snort* I've only just noticed this. I've set you off, haven't I :)
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