Mnemonics

I've noticed that many of my labels (the little words at the bottom of each post - I know you knew, but still...) have only been used once. This seems a very uneconomical practice, so I thought I'd try to boost the numbers of a few by reviving a mnemonics exercise I was taught many years ago. It goes like this. If you want to remember something you should associate it with something else in as kinetic, colourful and, if possible, obscene a way as possible.

Now I'm not going to do this for you. I'm simply going to give you the pairs of words and let you do the associating. Here goes (and I'll start with an easy one):

Borghezio - buttplug
Larry Craig - body snatchers
bars - pottery
circumcision - Paris Hilton
Ratzinger - very dark cave
fatwa - eucharist
heritage - dementia
Rupert Everett - soap

I'll be testing you in the weeks to come. Don't let me down.

The shallowest dream...

...I've ever had.

Rupert Everett and two ageing English actresses I recognise but can't name arrive at an airport with a sign saying Rupert Everett airport above the entrance. Everett leaves the plane and sweeps in to the airport, leaving the actresses behind him.

One of the actresses says to the other: I don't think Rupert's a big enough diva to warrant his own airport.

Hmm, says the other one. Rupert does.