Saturday, October 25, 2003

Ewwwwwww!

The Sun astonishes with I've got Blaine's trousers:
DAVID Blaine fan Caroline Roney holds up the smelly trousers the 30-year-old magician wore in his glass box — which she hopes to flog for £20,000.

Caroline, 24, caught the grey woollen pants when Blaine hurled them into the crowd at the end of his 44-day London stunt.

She has already turned down a £5,000 offer.

Waitress Caroline, of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, said: “I’m not going to wash them — that will destroy their value.”
Lest you think Caroline is more weird than she actually is, "flog" is British slang for "sell".

Which brings to mind the old Benny Hill skit in which Benny plays Dad sitting in a chair reading the paper when his teenage son comes to him and says, "Dad, there's a woman at the door and she wants to flog something." When Benny gets to the door, you can guess how the woman is dressed.