Tuesday, 9 August 2011

Spoonerism: Shandy the dog (London)

My beloved and inspirational tutor and supervisor at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), Dr. Paul Mulligan Thompson*, had a Japanese academic come to stay for a few weeks.  One day he came home to find the visitor issuing the following command to the family dog Shandy:  “Sandy, shit!  Sandy, shit!”

(London, mid-1980s)

*https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/jun/27/guardianobituaries.obituaries

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