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King's 'Kid' eBay'd for a king's ransom

I find it distasteful beyond description in polite company to read a single word the soi-disant "Bard of Maine" cranks out.

However, many writers I admire find Stephen King le roi de cauchemar.

Great movies emerge, but the man himself is far from on speaking terms with the alphabet.

(Pause to remove rancid grape pips from molars).

Anyway, he's "so hot that an advance copy of his latest novel, The Colorado Kid, was stolen and sold for $1,623 on eBay."

You'd think that, with their royalist shenanigans over the years, our Versailles homies would *own* all terms for a K's R.

Mais non! Tout simple, c'est "une somme fabuleuse."

Knowing that, buskerian readers are all set for when La Comtesse turns up for hot chocolat and a sympa ear.

"Zey 'ave - 'ow you say? - keednapped Jean-François ... once again."

"But, my dear" - voice throbbing with sincerity, a manly paw draped casually over her slender épaules - "how absolutely frightful. This is *too* too boring.

The gaze she will turn on you will be dewey, and it won't all be tears of longing for absent mari .