Monday, June 09, 2008

The unkindest cuticle

Lord Snowdon, writing to Princess Margaret at a particularly iffy point in their marriage:

"You look like a Jewish manicurist and I hate you."

9 comments:

Rog said...

Didn't it go on as:

"Stand up and say that Tony!".

"I am standing up!".

Annie said...

She should be so lucky.

Rimshot said...

"If ladies who are quite attractive throw themselves at one it is very difficult to resist," he said, when asked about his inability to remain faithful.

How could anything said by such a cad be considered hurtful or even taken seriously?

Billy said...

Is that a manicurist for Jews or a manicurist who is Jewish?

garfer said...

And what's so unattractive about Jewish manicurists?

9/10ths Full of Penguins said...

So, was the hate dependent on the Jewish manicurist bit? Or was it a statement of fact accompanied by unrelated hatred?

Christopher said...

Exactly. Clearly the world is not yet quite ready for the revelation that the late Pss (to use Queen Victoria's abbreviation) Margaret actually was a Jewish manicurist. I understand she did ears as well, and maybe other significant minor operations.

Boz said...

How many manicurists had he even *seen* - and why.

Tim F said...

I'm sure Lord Snowdon is cock-a-hoop over the depth of semiotic analysis to which his words are being subjected.

But I wondered if he's worried about that time he compared his sister-in-law to a Ukrainian potato farmer...