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Friday, December 7, 2018

Hommage a Wilbon

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...? 

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