Comments on: Germaine Greer trashed in The Monthly

By: Katz

Katz — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:46:48 +0000

The Going Away Party.

By: Paul Burns

Paul Burns — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:43:13 +0000

A parliamentary secretary. One wonders which party she worked for.

By: Katz

Katz — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:35:53 +0000

According to my mail Snedden's terminal bonk was more curious than infamous. She appears to have been attempting to discover how far the apple falls from the tree.

Drew Snedden, who was 33 at the time of his father's death, said yesterday the woman rang him after Sir Billy's death to say that she had been in his room that night.

By: Paul Burns

Paul Burns — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:48:10 +0000

Mandy Rice Davies was one of the women involved in the Profumo Affair. She’s famous for observing when (I think) Profumo denied having sex with her, “Well, he would say that, wouldn’t ‘e?
Can’t say I remember the name of the working girl who gave Bille Mackie Snedden such a glorious death.

By: anthony nolan

anthony nolan — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:41:11 +0000

Oh Mandy:

Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman
Givin’ all your love to just one man
You’ll have bad times, and he’ll have good times
Doin’ things that you don’t understand

But if you love him, then you’ll forgive him
Even though he’s hard to understand
And if you love him, oh, be proud of him
‘Cause after all he’s just a man

Stand by your man
Give him two arms to cling to
And somethin’ warm to come to
When nights are cold and lonely

Stand by your man
And show the world you love him
Keep givin’ all the love you can
Stand by your man

By: anthony nolan

anthony nolan — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:08:26 +0000

Profumo? Wasn’t she mixed up in that Bogle Chandler thing? Or was that Mandy Rice Davies with Bill Sneddon in his last moments? I do get confused sometimes and have no recall of a pome. Do contextualise please.

By: Patricia WA

Patricia WA — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:39:17 +0000

Obviously my paraphrasing of the infamous Mandy Rice Davies quote doesn’t ring bells at Larvatus Prodeo. I was so excited when the pome flashed into my head that I rushed my intro note. Any old timers from the early sixties who remember the Profumo scandal?

I guess that has nothing to do with Nowra. More to the point I thought Sayers’ piece a bit too arch to be a really good defence of her man.

By: AdamTucker

AdamTucker — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:31:34 +0000

I’m touched – Mandy actually thinks her hubby has gotten her out of the big house, busied in a little two-beddie, for unselfish reasons, so she can get on with her work …

By: Patricia WA

Patricia WA — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:23:33 +0000

Anyone old timers read Mandy Sayer in the Oz today?

Louis Nowra’s good wife by name Mandy
Says with housework he really is handy.
Claims he loves doing dishes
And meets all of her wishes.
Of course she’d say that! Why wouldn’t she?

By: Pavlov's Cat

Pavlov's Cat — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:41:54 +0000

Vanessa, I was at that Writers’ Week session mentioned by su at #233 (2008, it was) and there were an awful lot of school uniforms in the (huge) audience. One of the young women thus clad got up at question time and asked Greer impassionedly why no one had written a Female Eunuch for her own generation. Greer clearly approved of this question, and of the questioner, and told her she should go home and write it herself. The question got a round of applause and so did the answer.