I've just about had to tie one arm behind my back to keep from typing out various comments on the comedy potential this portrait brings to Millie's future sex life, but in the end my better motives prevailed and I shall offer none of them here.
No, what really was too much not to point out was the headline Stuff put on the story:
Daughter's tribute to Sir Paul skin-deep
I guess the sub-editor figured this would be a good pun, because a tattoo is skin-deep and skin deep implies deep and meaningful. Well, it would, except for the fact "skin deep" actually implies vanity, transience and lacking in depth, as in "Beauty is only skin-deep." I don't think anything I could have come up with would be quite as unfair and just plain rude to Millie Elder as Stuff's subeditors have managed.
3 comments:
Spot on, Milt. I am staggered at the number of adults in Australia who have absolutely no idea of history, grammar, logic, the meaning of the English language or good manner.
Their world starts at 'Jeez, gizza beer' and ends at 'fuck off.'
I have spent the better part of my working life among hairy legged seafarers. I thought I had seen every tattoo. I thought wrong. But I still have yet to see one that enhanced anyone.
There's some serious pain loose on the face of the earth but this is a stellar display. Pity would be more appropriate than Stuff's attempted pun.
George
There's some serious pain loose on the face of the earth but this is a stellar display.
Yeah, that's what put me off writing the barrage of one-liners begging to be written - it would just be mean-spirited to ridicule someone with such obvious problems.
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