Most off-putting
ONLY last Sunday, Perry Worsthorne planted an unabashed 'forsooth' bang in the middle of his leading article, and it was fascinating to watch it take flower.'Perry's provocative but entirely convincing essay argued with unassailable logic that the lurid tendency, pioneered in the Sixties, for Guardian-reading couples to 'kiss' — a practice wherein one 'partner' places his lips upon those of another 'partner', culmi- nating in an effect too horrid to describe is to be blamed for the rampant child abuse now sweeping the country. Perry put the blame fairly and squarely on Mr Kenneth Tynan, for was it not he who first intoned that ghastly word that rhymes with 'tuck' whilst appearing on the dread gogglebox? But it was Perry's telling use of 'forsooth' that clinched the argument. Justice Butler- Sloss had argued with feminine logic (con- tradiction in terms?!) for more social work- ers. This demand was smartly refuted by Perry with the single, devastating sentence, `More social workers forsooth.' Game, set and match to Mr Worsthorne.
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