W...il...bon...W...il...bon!
"What fills the bill? Eubonics will," professes Casaubon.*
"Who spills a mil? Hugh Bonneville," assesses Ele'nor B(r)on.**
"What kills with chill? Bubonics will," confesses Bon'...James Bon.' ***
"Whose pills be bonbons frilled with dill?" finesses Dot's "Big B(l)on.'"****
* Cf 'Middlemarch.'
** Cf 'Bedazzled.' (Of course Ms. Bron refers here not to
the
British actor but to the fiscally irresponsible character he portrays
in
the PBS soap "Downton Abbey."
*** Cf
'007.'
**** Cf 'Dorothy Parker.' As to whose identity is being called for
specifically in Ms. Parker's creation's question, is it not possible
that
it's a female colleague of The New Yorker columnist, one named Jill...?
Poet Poe pens nonsense verse. "Plus...phun," puns Uly, "I disburse." Its gamut runs from spam to worse. The po'sy posted...? Poe's diverse -- most, postcards from his universe, replies to grudges he must nurse. My summary...? Let me be terse: a mitzva, mostly. (Not a curse.)
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