What if the unrecorded subtext was that certain members of the House of Commons believed that the British Hat and Allied Feltmakers Research Association was quivering at the threshold of a tremendous felt-based technology that could help the Empire stop shedding its global constituents, one that could even return it to world supremacy? -- Wholesome felt-based food for the masses, say, or [whispering] the rumored B.H.A.F.R.A. Nuclear Felt Cannon?
I (I, for one) will never think dismissively of felt again.
Ah, the redoubtable No. 11 Anti-Shock Felt! Much praised in story and song. Details linked below (the good part begins at item 10).
ReplyDeletehttps://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1959/mar/17/british-hat-and-allied-feltmakers
Oh, shoot. Sorry, I hadn't seen that you put up the same link. I get excited, you know.
ReplyDeleteBut could the Hon. gentleman say that perhaps, his research was not quite adequately though?
ReplyDeleteSeriously I can't quite believe that whole exchange actually took place. You can't make this stuff up!
What if the unrecorded subtext was that certain members of the House of Commons believed that the British Hat and Allied Feltmakers Research Association was quivering at the threshold of a tremendous felt-based technology that could help the Empire stop shedding its global constituents, one that could even return it to world supremacy? -- Wholesome felt-based food for the masses, say, or [whispering] the rumored B.H.A.F.R.A. Nuclear Felt Cannon?
ReplyDeleteI (I, for one) will never think dismissively of felt again.
Possibly taking a lead from Milo Minderbinder's Egyptian Cotton misadventures...
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