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I wish now I'd named this whole blog PeddyFogger - so much more accurate a summary of what I dish out ... and look how fashionable I'd have been what with the Code Enforcer joining the mayoral muckraking.

You realize of course that he's bound to win. Not just from the garish signs he's littering around but because he has this totally cool mnemoniker of a name that no one can possibly forget.

I mean, even me - I never  get out, I know no one in the neighborhood and those I do make me use the tradesman's entrance - but even I am picking up the buzz of 'power' sobriquets such as

As I say, even this early in the race, the Codeist looks set to triumph just from his malleable name.

I mean, like I'm a treMendous  fan of Darlene's but no way can I contort her name into anything resembling a cool blog title. All I come up with is 'Caught onna Kordonowy?' as in "Caught onto Kordonowy? but one needs to pronounce it with a manly American slur as in 'Cordonner Kordonowy?' which my fluting Oxford tones can't manage.

Anyway, we *have* all kordona Kordonowy 'cause we voted her in as Mayor.

Or I could go freedom Frenchie and treat her like a Gour-Mayor with

My only other darlenist slogans play right into the Peddycule's hands:

Not at all what darlin' Darlene wants to hear on the hustings.

SEX

As if having a cool last name wasn't enough to whip up a storm of Peddy-Philia, the cunning intellectual is making lusty use of his *first* name in a ploy that can only lay on more votes.

Yes, indeed, once the message gets home, WP will be bound straight for that mayoral peddy-stal. (All I ask is that they refrain from cracking puns on election/erection. This is just the sort of winning ploy that marketing maven Ølsen will pull on the home stretch, so I'm appealing for fair play all round. OK, chaps?)

Can you imagine the frisson that'll run thru the electorate as Jimmy Ølsen springs to His Liege's bidding, handing out roneo'd copies of key Sonnets complete with Cliff's Notes cheat sheets to "The Meanings of 'will' as they recur in the accompanying poems:

1. Wish, desire; thing desired.
2. Carnal desire, lust, sexual longing.
3. The auxiliary verb denoting a future tense, as in 'it will be so, thou wilt vouchsafe'.
4. Willfulness, obstinacy, determination.
5. A slang term for the male sex organ. As in - 'this night he fleshes his will in the spoil of her honour'. AW.IV.iii.14.
6. A slang term for the female sex organ

And how about "Fleshes his will in the spoil of her honour"?

Is that not THE most perfect headline for our local rags to have ready for the glorious morning when, Her Honour Darlene's re-election bid resoundingly "spoiled", Peddy rides triumphantly down Winslow High (flanked by an escort of his policier cronies) to be crowned Mayor of all he surveys?

'Where there's a "Will" there's a way', indeed, the randy old punster. Speaking of wordplay, I *must* have a word with the experts down at the Lusty Lady. See how they feel about running a marquee on the day,

(I should go into the headline coining business full time. I sense a definite talent there ....)