Today's word is FACTOTUM: definition
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General Factotum was - as usual - feeling sore. Why was it everyone expected HIM to be the one to sort out the Army's messes? Just because of his name. He ground his teeth.
ReplyDeleteStopping pacing for a moment, he came to a decision and rang for his own factotum, Major Hassles...
Major Hassles, hates being summoned early in the morning but what can he do, it's Gen. Factotum. He has to rush upstairs in ten minutes else he gets his ire.
ReplyDeleteOn his way up,he smiled upon seeing Sergeant Harrass ,his own factotum ...
it was a shy smile. major hassles was a shy man. not shy with his gun but quite retiring otherwise. his seargeant harrass had broken through his walls, together with the chaplain, fr. ustration. it had happened when fr. ustration joined them to hide from his factotum, bosomy mrs. beastly ...
ReplyDelete(I'm so glad we've bypassed Corporal Punishment - but that's a Private Joke, so do follow on from Isabella, not from this :D )
ReplyDeleteTidd, you're too funny! Ok, let's bypass that nice man then]
ReplyDeleteWell, Fr. Ustration said she was his factotum to keep a modicum of decorum. But in fact, Mrs. Beastly was his mistress. She would do anything in bed. She had trained with MaxRaunchiness who in the end chose her redheaded sister over her, Pru Rient...
(Sorry, this doesn't follow on but I wanted to share it anyway.)
ReplyDeleteTsarvitch Nickolai, that naughty Prince of Rus
Was caught by his Ma one day whipping the butler, thus.
"Nikolai, my child, my boy, desist! It is not right
For a prince of the blood to whip a serf so with all his might!"
"Oh mother dear," the prince replied, "I was so bored and irked -
I could not for the life of me find anything that worked.
Then father said to take a whip and beat a factotum."
"I think you’ll find he really said to whip your teetotum."