Sunday, December 07, 2008
Awkward Questions
I remember chatting to Claus von Bulow at a party long ago. I was carefully avoiding any mention of his wife when some bloke came up and plunged straight in - 'How's the wife?' He was perfectly happy to discuss the state of her health and, indeed, the charge that he poisoned her. The moral is: always ask the awkward question because it probably isn't. The next time I run into Gordon Brown I intend to ask him if he really does have a ping-pong ball in his mouth.
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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
If he has not make sure you shove a few in and hopefully down, 20-30 should do.
ReplyDeletenext time you run into him, reverse up and finish the job properly.
ReplyDeleteMy father told me a story of Claus von Bulow walking into his club one day, causing a hush to go round the room. After a brief, tense silence von Bulow looked up and said "I didn't do it, you know". Ice broken, everybody got on just fine.
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