Indefatigability
I always associate the word “indefatigability” with UK MP George Galloway using it to praise, in person, Saddam Hussein. I can only hear it in his voice.
Later, on Celebrity Big Brother, he pretended to be a cat.
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She even produced a direct hit on the Lando! Nice shootin’, Tex!
Though it does mean a session with the body shop, alas!
I’m sure she can push out that dent with her hand easily enough, probably with one pinky finger if she feels like showing off.
Well said Lottie, very well said. I really hope she will stay in touch with Hetty and Stephen. They could be amazing allies.
Poor stag. Ruminate in Power.
Stag, parti.
I must admit that, as an American, I was not familiar with either of these appearances of Mr. Galloway. It is kind of refreshing, though, to see someone embarrassing himself on The Apprentice after serving as a major world leader.
Yeah, also I’m an American and vaguely remember Mr. Galloway, but he’s unfortunately the useful idiot’s useful idiot. N.b. “Useful idiot” is allegedly Stalin’s term to describe his Western admirers who were usually ill-informed (at best) or turned a blind eye (at worst) in regards to his atrocities and has since then been applied to any Western admirer of various autocrats who have a bone to pick with Western(often America-led) hegemony (either rightly or wrongly).
The 1980’s really was the golden era of the Western establishment praising brutal Middle Eastern dictators.
From Reagan calling the Taliban “freedom fighters” to the ending of Rambo III praising the bravery of the mujahedin, never a dull moment.
Depends which mujahideen, but IIRC the 80s ones in Afghanistan were actually pretty cool. Check it out – they had a female warlord, the “Dove” 😀 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_mujahideen#Role_of_women
The words “major world leader” there are doing heavier lifting than Hetty in panel three. 35 years ago, Galloway took Roy Jenkins’s seat — say what you might of Jenkins, he got things done.
Also, I made a bit of an error in reading “PM” when John had clearly written “MP”. Had I given a moment’s thought before typing my comment, I would have remembered that Mrs. Thatcher was PM in the 80’s.
I can’t get over that cat impression. In 2022 it feels disturbingly intimate. Sir, why are you doing this on the television? Why do I have to see this with my innocent eyes.
Last panel- I imagine Lottie can be pretty sure about the fingers, but how does she know about the toes?
I think Lottie has her potential trench-foot on the brain.
Well it looks like Lottie might be one step closer to uniting the strained Mapplethorpe siblings and all are even closer to a potentially great venison stew.
As a fellow Scot, I always felt George Galloway was a huge embarrassment to our nation and couldn’t bear to watch any of those TV appearances. So having seen both of those for the first time (although I was aware of them) I am even more embarrassed now, years later.
Thanks John.
We see relatively few on-stage fatalities in John’s work, so it’s nice to have confirmation that such events can involve the correct crosses over the eye sockets.
(How do they do that? Maybe assign a task force to find out…)
I mean, Shelley has died more than once.
No, she died has died once. Come on.
She narrowly avoided death a bunch of times, though. Definitely not the same thing.
I have a suspicion that, despite the revivification of her cells through the healing power of 1 point 21 jiggawatts coursing through her, Shelley may still technically be a zombie. It would explain why she’s been so resilient since her initial death.
My feeling, though I’ve never written this down before, is that the whole death/reanimation thing granted Shelley “cartoon immortality” like Garfield, Peanuts or Beetle Bailey. She barely ages, except inside her head.
Oh god. Galloway.
I suspect that counts as deer-rustling, though.
And they didn’t scatter the ashes.
Hettie didn’t rustle it, she wrassled it.
I met Rula Lenska at a wedding and through enormous self-control did not mention this incident or cats at all
Did you tell her how wonderful she was on Rock Follies?
Do those rear windows on the Lando really wing open like that? Brilliant!
I’m not 100% sure whether that was something I saw on my research trawl or if I made it up.
Oh, that’s what’s going on there. I’d been trying to figure out if it was a reflection of some sort, or if the ballistic stag had cracked it.
Lando. Clearly this is a ‘Northern’ expression, as I have only come across the term Landy ‘dahn sahf’.
Depends on the vintage.
I FINALLY know how to pronounce that!!!
I learned it from this, many decades ago: https://youtu.be/m9wdYy3tCm4?t=60
Oh, I see Alaric has beaten me to it.
I neglected to include the link, though.
The word “indefatigable” always makes me think of the Knights of the Round Table song from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
In war we’re tough and able,
Quite in-de-fatig-able!
Between our quests we sequin vests
And impersonate Clark Gable.
It’s a busy life in Camelot;
I have to push the pram a lot!