I actually never knew that, so I learned something new on the internet again today! On the meaning you intended, I completely concur. A clerical collar ought to be a signal to a child to turn and run the other way, not necessarily out of fear of any potential physical molestation but for the rape of a young impressionable mind, which is a child's most important superpower. Only a child can make a blank piece of paper into everything from a restaurant menu, the bill for same, and a bus ticket all at the same time, as my little niece Rosie did the other day (she loves playing shops. And teachers) as well as a billion and one other things that only exist in the mind of a child.
Mind you, going back to the Cockney Strangler for a moment, I can actually (barely passably) dance with a broom handle while shouting "schtep in time!" Not on a bloody rooftop, though.
Mind you, going back to the Cockney Strangler for a moment, I can actually (barely passably) dance with a broom handle while shouting "schtep in time!" Not on a bloody rooftop, though.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
