H Boggart Abroad: There Are Many Diseases That Strike People's Kneeses

Boggart Abroad

A humourous way of looking at events around the world. Happenings both momentous and trivial are given the Thorpe treatment which can range from subtle satire to zany surrealism. All Ian's posts have one thing in common, they cut through the b.s. of mainstream media coverage to expose hypocrisy and cant.

Name: Ian Thorpe
Location: Accrington, Lancashire, United Kingdom

An ageing roue who is not afraid to admit he dyes his hair.

Wednesday, December 14, 2005

There Are Many Diseases That Strike People's Kneeses

A Korean family hoping to cure their mother’s weak knees bid nearly $120,000 (£70,000) at an auction for a set of wild ginseng roots. Yonhap news agency reported that an entrepreneur and his brothers made the bid. The package of six roots included specimens 110 years old. Ginseng is highly valued in Korea for its perceived healing and potency benefits.

Reminds me of a poem called Scorflufus by the late, Great Spike Milligan...

There are many diseases
that strike people's kneeses,
Scorflufus is one by name.
It comes from the east
packed in barrels of yeast
so the Chinese must take half the blame.
There's a case on the files
Of Sir Barington Pyles
Who, while out hunting foxes one day
shot up in the air
and remained hanging there
While the hairs on his socks turned grey...

and that is more than convention reasonably allows me to quote from this piece (Copyright Spike Milligan)

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