Quite a while ago [ post 101] I showed you a smashing ( in my opinion) index that I made ..... it's an index for the "binoculars" section in Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book. I was quite chuffed with it myself, because most indexes are right boring and dry. Not mine though. In case you didn't see it at the time, here it is ... Adverts 59 Army, German 60 bins 58, 59 binoculars 58, 59, 60,61 big, butch 60 caps, chewing 60 rain 60 staining 60 sun 60 warping 60 distressing of 60 effeminate 60 expensive 60 little 60 poncy 60 small 60 strap, long, disapproval of 61 short, approval of, 61 too short, chin issue 61 waist, dangling down to, sporran-like, disapproval of 61 wearing, where 61 neck, round 61 shoulder, over 61 birds, rare 61 blood, staining with 60 case, binocular, over shoulder binoculars in, disapproval of, 61 losing, approval of 61 lunch, packed, in , approval of 6 roll-ups in, approval of 61 soppiness of .... 61 throwing away ... safest idea 61 coffee , staining with 60 corpses, bird, rings of 61 tideline, binocular case, in, approval of, 61 Crane, bird 59 Crane, crane 59 Diminutives 58 dozen, half of ... 60 dude, not a ... 60 wealthy 60 dust 59 Edges, blue 59 orange 59 Equipment, essential 58 Germany, west 60 Glass 58,59 Hipness 58 Leitz 60 Lenses, clean 60 great, big 59 scratched 60 Magnification x25 ,59 x 10 ,59 15p per , 59 monsters 59 mud 60 name, German 59 'nockies 59 Noddy 59 Noddy, Bill 59 Papers, morning, saturday 59 Parts, precision 59 posh 58 rain 59 rings, festooning with 60 diamond, not festooning with 60 ear- , not festooning with 61 rooms, ringing, Observatory ... 61 sand 60 SCH 59 shameless 59 soup, tomato, staining with 60 stoop , permanent 59 sun 59 twee 59 water 59 weathers, all 60 workmanlike 58 Z 59, 60 Zeiss 60 Zoffel and Schuntz 59, 60 x25 60 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ But, you might ask, why am I showing it to you again.... is it because .. [a] I'm very forgetful ? [b] I'm an idiot. [c] I'm very forgetful. [d] I was just keen to show off. [e] I'm trying to get you all to comment on how brilliant it is. [t] I'm very forgetful. Well, no. The REAL reason is ... you know that Willy Wordsworth poem with the stuffed owl in it that I just wrote about 2 posts ago ..well, it was in a really clever book full of cack poetry ! It was called, of course... The Stuffed Owl. Which was right up my street. But .... but ... the index was very very interesting ... here's a few bits from it ... there's quite a few wildlife references in there ... so pay attention .... Now I think you'll agree that they've nicked my idea ... that's just like my blasted index ... but funnier. Well, they've got better material to work with. But there's a snag there ... their book was published in, er, oh dear, 2003. They've obviously got some sort of time machine and wooshed forward to nick my brilliant indexing method. But I don't mind. I'm a generous old Hector after all. Further entertainment .. the great Graham Parker .. " (Don't bother with the) local girls " .........
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