My writing has not shied away from difficult topics and I do not do so here.
A few days ago, Tom Tugendhat, who was in the running for UK PM’s slot, said he felt like a “prom queen”, such were the urgent entreaties he was getting from his fellow Tories.
“I am still very much in this fight,” he proclaimed. Mr T’s paternal grandfather was a immigrant from Austria who converted to Roman Catholicism and became a great success in England.
Tom is a duel British/French citizen and he speaks French and Arabic.
Tom is, of course, no longer in this fight as of now and we are left to speculate as to the fate of his prom dress, apart from the certainty that it hit the floor at midnight in the traditional way of prom dresses.
So what’s so difficult about that? you ask.
It’s his surname, you see. It’s actually pronounced “too GEND at” instead of the far funnier and more sensible “tug end hat”.
The English people have been wonderful to me in some trying circumstances, but their ways are often hard to countenance.
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I wonder...has Mr. Tug end hat ever been compared to Egypt's Hat cheap suit?