Reply #19: "Why should I be tarred with the epithet "Looney" merely because I have a pet Halibut?"

[A HERETIC I AM]

I am not a loony! Why should I be tarred with the epithet 'loony' merely because I have a pet halibut? I've heard tell that Sir Gerald Nabarro has a pet prawn called Simon - and you wouldn't call Sir Gerald a loony, would you? Furthermore Dawn Palethorpe, the lady show jumper, had a clam called Sir Stafford, after the late chancellor. Alan Bullock has two pikes, both called Norman, and the late, great Marcel Proust had an 'addock! If you're calling the author of 'A la recherche de temps perdu' a loony, I shall have to ask you to step outside!


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