Stephen Potter
Stephen Potter
Stephen Meredith Potterwas a British author best known for his mocking self-help books and their film and television derivatives...
moving men tennis
In lawn tennis mixed, the basic chivalry move is to pretend to serve less fiercely to the woman than to the man. This is particularly useful if your first service tends to be out in any case.
believe safety bird
Cogg would suddenly stand stock still. "Listen," he would say. Some feeble quack would be heard from the willow beyond the pond. "That's an easy one to tell. The frog-pippit." Then he would add, As a safety measure, "As I believe they call it in these parts."
book should-have done
Your function as a critic is to show that it is really you yourself who should have written the book, if you had had the time, and since you hadn't you are glad that someone else had, although obviously it might have been done better.
ask carpet circular friend means patterns says shoes
If your friend says of some picture, ""Yes, but what does it mean?"" ask him, what his carpet means or the circular patterns on his shoes