The Proustian rush of seeing an old Nordie Tayto packet from the 80s (probably), which still featured the secondary character of a Tayto worker who looked like Bernard Manning or somesuch. Did he have a name?
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@Nickiquote
Sucking the remnants of Bernard Manning off my fingers is troubling. I can’t unsee that packet now. 😣
@blabberlicious "Sucking the remnants of Bernard Manning off my fingers" is either a killer opening line for a poem, or a killer title for an autobiography
One of my favourite first lines of a book is High Rise by JG Ballard:
"Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building during the previous three months."
It could now be improved:
"Later, as he sat on his balcony sucking the remnants of Bernard Manning off his fingers, Dr Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this…”
@Nickiquote @blabberlicious
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man sucking the remnants of Bernard Manning off his fingers, must be in want of a wife."
@mothninja @Nickiquote @blabberlicious "Marley was sucking the remnants of Bernard Manning off his fingers, to begin with"
@DJDarren @Nickiquote @blabberlicious
"Last night, I dreamt I was sucking the remnants of Bernard Manning off my fingers again"
@mothninja @DJDarren @blabberlicious “It was a cold day in April and the clocks were striking sucking-the-remnants-of-Bernard Manning-off-my-fingers o’clock”
@Nickiquote @mothninja @DJDarren @blabberlicious “For a long time I used to go to bed early, sucking the remnants of Bernard Manning off my fingers.”
@arratoon @Nickiquote @DJDarren @blabberlicious "The past is another country; they suck the remnants of Bernard Manning off their fingers there."
@mothninja @arratoon @Nickiquote @DJDarren @blabberlicious One thing was certain, that sucking the remnants of Bernard Manning off their fingers had had nothing to do with it:
@KaraLG84 @mothninja @arratoon @Nickiquote @DJDarren @blabberlicious
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Sucking the remnants of Bernard Manning off his fingers.
@TheBreadmonkey @KaraLG84 @mothninja @arratoon @Nickiquote @DJDarren
"I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go” He said, sucking the remnants of Bernard Manning off his fingers.
The Wild Boys
William Burroughs
@blabberlicious @KaraLG84 @mothninja @arratoon @Nickiquote @DJDarren
I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up. I had just gotten over a serious illness that
I won’t bother to talk about, except that it had something to do with sucking the remnants of Bernard Manning off my fingers.
@TheBreadmonkey @blabberlicious @KaraLG84 @mothninja @arratoon @Nickiquote @DJDarren
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think sucking remnants of Bernard Manning off their fingers is a pretty neat idea.
