Introducing Rachida Dati..

The above person is Rachida Dati, who was formerly French Justice Minister and was recently interviewed by French TV Channel Canal+ Our new friend caused some puzzlement when she announced in the course of the interview 'I see some [foreign investment funds] looking for returns of 20 or 25% at a time when fellatio is close to zero'.

One may struggle for the connection.

The explanation is that The French word for fellatio is 'fellation', which - we are assured - sounds similar to the word 'inflation'. Erm, quite so. Our heroine blames talking too quickly but what can have been on her mind? Christine would not make such an error, would she? Some spoilsport has disabled embedding for the relevant clip on YouTube but here is the link. Hat Tip to Mahal.

And further to the posting on the Titanic, the rabbit has been contacted by a person with very considerable relevant experience who writes...

'Titanic - from one who knows about these things, the two sets of orders gambit is rubbish - hard a starboard (or previously larboard) has always meant that.

The nearest ship, the Californian, had absolutely no real capacity to rescue everyone anyway. The exhibition at Harland and Wolf shows plainly that in terms of survival, money really did talk. The interesting thing is the idea that the ship was unsinkable - what an advertising campaign! So I think this story is worth a look but there have been even more noteworthy disasters in terms of avoidance than Titanic'.

So that settles that. I was somewhat puzzled as previously remarked on that the story took about a century - and the publication of Mrs Patten's book - to see the light of day. Prompted by my informant, I end with the good advice to keep on trucking. Memo to self: must blog on R.Crumb sometime...