Ah Bazza. He should be Poet Laureate except that I don't think he would want to write poems praising the Royals. Whereas I...

The Queen, the Queen
Is a great human bean.

When do we get a book, Bazza. We wait impatient for the day to dawn.

Yes, I remember Bazza's piece. It made me snarl and wince - not because it isn't excellent or funny (it's both), but because it gave me the disquieting and unwelcome suspicion that Bazza may have an even filthier mind than my own.

I was asked to comment so...
 

I came.

I saw.

I concurred.

Bazza is, of course, one of the masters of the misnomer "light verse." My previous oversight was very naughty. Ouch.

My major plaint with Ransome-Davies' tender lines is that he didn't say "whock" instead of "whack". It's a much thumpier vowel sound.

Allen, you, of course, may do as you please, but here in the UK we do not whock.

What, never?

Never, Sir.

We might honk ironically from time to to time but we do not whock.

How do you whock, Allen?

Trust me, John. You don't want to go there.