30 Sunday Apr 2017
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LADY MARY (smugly, to a baffled Lord Grantham) Your niece is a flapper, accept it.
LADY ROSE (exquisitely thrilled by the fact that she is finally being recognised and accepted for what she is) I am not a flapper!
08 Wednesday Feb 2017
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LADY MARY (with sass masked as cultivated disdain) Lady Edith chose to set fire to her room, but we’re fine.
04 Sunday Sep 2016
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Preface
This batch of freshly baked puns is for anyone who’s ever inflicted a dad joke on me; happy Father’s Day you man-sized child!
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Avid aesthete: [gazes at bright-eyed, raven-haired beauty] Look at her; she’s so damn beautiful. I must shoot her—I need to shoot her!
Companion: [is visibly shocked] Shoot her?! You mean like kill her??? Continue reading
26 Saturday Mar 2016
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Boy: So what should I get her? Some red roses? A necklace with a moon pendant? That’d be clever, wouldn’t it, and romantic too.
Me: Must your lover be doomed to either receive a wilting bouquet symbolising love or have your love for her compared to a dull satellite that waxes and wanes?
Boy: Are you always like this? It must be exhausting.
Me: Exhausting? I find it most exhilarating; don’t you? Continue reading
the rose garden 