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Today on Facebook, in a report on grocery prices, I reviled Helmet Grabpussy, Felonious Bunk, and the Anaranjado Rapist. Hana Filip then initiated a meta-discussion, about my discussion:

— HF: What a nice collection of monikers

— AZ >HF: Everyone should have a hobby (and, said the Cold Duke of Coffin Castle, mine is being wicked — but mine is collecting names for that obloquy magnet, 45+47, the Orange Menace)

— AZ: Ok, ok: The Cold Duke is from James Thurber’s The Twelve Clocks. Not everyone knows this, but you probably should

At which point, Christopher Walker pursued the topic of the Cold Duke, with an apt quotation:

— CW > AZ: “Hark, hark, the dogs do bark, / The Duke is fond of kittens. / He likes to take their insides out, / And use their fur for mittens.”

 

— AZ > CW: That’s our Duke!

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