different planet

Michael Quinion wordseditor at WORLDWIDEWORDS.ORG
Wed Apr 21 14:51:10 UTC 2010


> This Brooklyn boy found it all making sense until the very end -- could
> someone enlighten me about the reference to "wicked Ron's gazebo"?

Ron is the notional writer of the blog, Ron Scuttle, the unreconstructed
working-class "old" Labour MP consumed with class hatred. There's a
running gag about the gazebo, I believe, which I must confess I've never
got to grips with.

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Michael Quinion
Editor, World Wide Words
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