A Word from the Unwise

Does that make science?

 

I got rid of the lawns to make room for more interesting plants. The the best place for grass is in a field

 

You remind me of a tennis player (whom I hope you are too young to remember) called John Newcombe to whom I had been boasting that I was getting tips about greenkeeping from the AELTC head groundsman. Newcombe (who, next to a slumped, incoherent James Hunt, was getting quietly plastered with Tony Roche at the Crooked Billet) unequivocally countered a crisp, unanswerable volley: “ Grass is for ******* cows! ... ******* grass!” That put his preferences in perspective. Je me le suis tenu pour dit! and did not repeat this in the (in)appropriate places. But it is now out of copyright!

This new train of thought in the rallying of this post enables me to add here something I have wanted to share with the forum for some time whilst feeling that perhaps it was not sufficiently relevant and in keeping with the intellectual rigour and moral integrity generally displayed on this platform, but I think we reached a point, even if it is a close call, where a lenient umpire would allow it. It is a cartoon (you will detect the lobb(y)ing reference to grass) of double wit and single brilliance on lines parallel to the best of “double entente” (yes, NOT “entendre” – grrrrrrr) and reciprocal to and fro:

 

I can remember all three of the gentlemen mentioned, however I was not old enough to frequent an establishment such as the Crooked Billet until some years after their retirements. Sadly having just checked I was old enough as both Roche and Newcombe retired 78 - 79.