I could write something grave and political but that would be straying well into P45 country.
I'm not sure I would recognise an aardvark if I saw one on Brixton High Street*. But Google has 30,700 images, so I imagine that's where they all hide.
I think the aardvark exists purely as an alphabetical convenience. It's the first real word in my dictionary...in checking that I managed to knock over Fowler which knocked the speaker off the desk. There could have been a tale of woe involving coffee and electricity. But there wasn't.
I campaigned in a Local Election in 1986. It was both a routine once-every-four-years and a by-election, in one of the most interesting wards in the country (it tends to dictate control of Trafford Council, if the Tories can't control Trafford Council, they're in deep shit). We won one, and took minority control of the council, but in failing to win the second we failed to take overall control. Psephological analysis showed the tendency of voters to pick candidates higher up the list alphabetically** Jim M was not happy, and decided to change his name by deed poll to Seamus Aardvark...the Seamus would capitalise on the Catholic vote.
It almost always holds true, that alphabetical thing (unless your name happens to be Abu-Bakr or Anyanwu, as we discovered in Lambeth in 1994). Undeterred the next by-election was successfully won by Messrs Abu-Bakr and Adams. Being Curtis, I thought I would benefit from the alphabetical effect. My opponents included Baker, Baron, Binder. One running mate was Cattermole. Heck, I still polled the second highest number of votes in the entire Borough. Donkey in a red rosette, you see.
D'you think they'd vote for an aardvark in a red rosette?
What brought this on? - thanks Damian
*I'm not sure where Brixton High street is. It's an expression beloved by the meejah, but not by any cartographers. I expect they mean Brixton Road. But too prosaic for a sensationalist web of lies
** Electoral Reform - list candidates in random, not alphabetical, order?
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