Lucy Vickery

Favouritism

issue 13 October 2018

In Competition No. 3069 you were invited to provide a spoof version of the song ‘My Favourite Things’ for the constituency/demographic of your choice. I decided to set this comp after stumbling across the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic recast as it might have been sung by an elderly Julie Andrews (‘Maalox and nose drops and needles for knitting,/ Walkers and handrails and new dental fittings…’).
 
It seemed to go down well, drawing an entry that ranged far and wide, from Basil Ransome-Davies’s fetishists (‘Dildoes and butt plugs that tirelessly tingle,/ Electrical probes and Ben Wa balls that jingle…’) to Max Gutmann’s Fox News viewers (‘Gawking at lovely harassable females,/ Daily reminders of Hillary’s emails’) via Chris O’Carroll’s potheads (‘Underground comix and indie musicians,/ Sentences full of oh-wows and omissions…’) I was impressed by Douglas G. Brown’s evenhandedness in these polarised times. He submitted entries for both Trump-detractors: ‘Grabbing the women I like by the pussy,/ Letting Vlad Putin know I’m not a wussy…’; and Hillary-haters: ‘Millions and millions for Slick Willy’s speeches/ Paid in my coffers by corporate leeches…’ The winners are rewarded with £30 each.

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