Competition | 3 October 2009

Lucy Vickery presents the latest competition

In Competition No. 2615 you were invited to provide a lesson in the facts of life courtesy of Mrs Malaprop or the Revd William A. Spooner. This comp produced an especially enjoyable entry, highlights of which deserve to be shared. Here’s Brian Murdoch: ‘In these days, when over-copulation has become a purse, it is important that boys yearn about losing their bodies in a gay that is wood. I entreat all mean-age tales, though assailed by the pierce fashions of youth, to resist above all the surge towards elf-abuse’. Over now to Adrian Fry: ‘When you children grow up and experience presbytery, you’ll feel sectionally tractored to the opposing agenda.’ And finally, Basil Ransome-Davies, followed by Paul Griffin: ‘To have prodigy it is infinitive to have the genteel organs exposed. Otherwise, the necessary incineration and contraption cannot occur’; ‘My young friends, your beauty is to drake yourself of lust, which brings shirty dame and sitter badness.