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.
@davidbcohen @TheBreadmonkey @blabberlicious @mothninja @arratoon @Nickiquote @DJDarren "You cold-blooded bastard! I'll tell you what I think of it. I'll live to see you eat that contract! But I hope you leave enough room for my fist because I'm going to ram it into your stomach and suck the remnants of Bernard Manning off your fingers!"
@KaraLG84 @davidbcohen @blabberlicious @mothninja @arratoon @Nickiquote @DJDarren
Saunders had been sucking the remnants of Bernard Manning off his fingers for almost two weeks now and, so far, he hadn't enjoyed a minute of it.
@TheBreadmonkey @KaraLG84 @davidbcohen @blabberlicious @mothninja @arratoon @Nickiquote @DJDarren "Dawn came slowly, almost not at all. The sun crept over the hill slowly, fearful of having the remnants of Bernard Manning sucked off of its fingers."
@sen @TheBreadmonkey @KaraLG84 @davidbcohen @blabberlicious @mothninja @arratoon @Nickiquote @DJDarren
Call me Ismael. Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would suck the remains of Bernard Manning off my fingers and see the watery part of the world.
@tommoree @sen @TheBreadmonkey @KaraLG84 @davidbcohen @blabberlicious @mothninja @arratoon @Nickiquote @DJDarren It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him. Yossarian was in the hospital, sucking the remnants of Bernard Manning off his fingers...
@woe2you @tommoree @sen @TheBreadmonkey @davidbcohen @blabberlicious @mothninja @arratoon @Nickiquote @DJDarren I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots;
Her coat is of the tabby kind, with tiger stripes and leopard spots.
All day she sits upon the stair or on the steps or on the mat:
She sucksthe remnants of Bernard manning off her paws —and that's what makes a Gumbie Cat!
@KaraLG84 @woe2you @tommoree @sen @TheBreadmonkey @blabberlicious @mothninja @arratoon @Nickiquote @DJDarren Now is the winter of our discontent, made glorious summer by this sun of licking the remnants of Bernard Manning off our fingers
@davidbcohen @KaraLG84 @woe2you @tommoree @sen @TheBreadmonkey @blabberlicious @arratoon @Nickiquote @DJDarren "I say we take off and lick the entire remnants of Bernard Manning off our fingers from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
@mothninja @davidbcohen @KaraLG84 @tommoree @sen @TheBreadmonkey @blabberlicious @arratoon @Nickiquote @DJDarren
The ship didn’t even have a name. It had no human crew because the factory craft which constructed it had been evacuated long ago. It had no life-support or accommodation units for the same reason. It had no class number or fleet designation because it was a mongrel made from bits and pieces of different types of warcraft; and it didn’t have a name because the factory craft had no time left for such niceties.
The dockyard threw the ship together as best it could from its depleted stock of components, even though most of the weapon, power and sensory systems were either faulty, superseded or due for overhaul. The factory vessel knew that its own destruction was inevitable, but there was just a chance that its last creation might have the speed and the luck to lick the remnants of Bernard Manning off its fingers.
@woe2you @mothninja @davidbcohen @KaraLG84 @tommoree @sen @TheBreadmonkey @blabberlicious @arratoon @Nickiquote @DJDarren Tell me about a complicated man.
Muse, tell me how he wandered and was lost
when he had wrecked the holy town of Troy,
and where he went, and who he met, the pain
he suffered in the storms at sea, and how
he worked to save his life and bring his men
back home. He failed to keep them safe; poor fools,
they licked the Bernard Manning’s remnants, off their fingers
