The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #44722   Message #659370
Posted By: Herga Kitty
27-Feb-02 - 04:57 PM
Thread Name: BS: An iguana too far
Subject: RE: BS: An iguana too far
Yes, we have an iguana - well, we had an iguana yesterday.

Igwig made the front page of yesterday's Guardian (the only other front page stories were "Zimbabwean opposition leader charged with plot to kill Mugabe" (equal size) and "He has our full confidence" (on which, as an employee of DTLR, I will not comment). But there are some nice unintentional links to other recent threads, like the pub in which the iguana hurling occurred was the Anchor (albeit Newport IOW not Sidmouth) and the defendant was Wallace - as was the lion that ate Albert. I understand that one of the reasons that the Albert monologues were so popular in certain quarters in Britain was because the lion shared a name with Mrs Simpson, Duchess of Windsor....