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The Genteel Set
Lord and Lady Bottomly were invited to weekend at the country estate of their friend, Lord Drippingtool.
In true Edwardian tradition, it was 48 hours of high-toned drunkenness and debauchery. Many a husband was cuckolded, many a maiden deflowered, rich food was consumed, and rich gossip exchanged.
As they bade their goodbyes, Lord Bottomly addressed his host in his most uppercrust British accent, "Thank you so very much, Lord Drippingtool. The food was excellent, the wine superb, the hunting fantastic, and, by the way, your wife is absolutely terrific in the hay."
As they sat together in their compartment on the train back to London, an outraged Lady Bottomly said, "Darling, you ate that man's food and drank his wine and you actually had the affrontery to say that his wife was good in bed?"
"Well," replied Lord Bottomly, "she wasn't, actually. But what could I say?"
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"And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking.
Racing around to come up behind you again. The sun is the same in a relative way but your older, shorter of breath, and one day closer to death" ...pink floyd
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