Restoration Comedy

[Robert]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/26/second-spanish-church-falls-prey-to-well-intentioned-restorer-st-george-ecce-homo-monkey-christ

[Sam Flynn]

I don't understand the fuss over that so-called "Monkey Christ". The head of the Catholic Church is a primate, after all

[Robert]

Yes, but the restorer apparently became a bit of a celebrity, so is it a question of cui bonobo?

[Sam Flynn]

For making such an awful pun, Robert, thy penance is to recite the Nunc dimittis, aka the prayer of Simian.

[Robert]

I am justly rebuked. I shall retire to a capuchin monastery.

[MrBarnett]

Yes, but the restorer apparently became a bit of a celebrity, so is it a question of cui bonobo?

Gibbon the awfulness of that Howler, I would expect to see you playing the piano at a tea party in Regent's Park:

'You hum it, Sam, and I'll play it.'

[Sam Flynn]

Macaquing myself

[Robert]

I've cancelled the capuchin monastery. Instead I'm going to vacation in a lovely Dutch resort - a place called Chimp aan Zee.