Asses Braying in the Basement
Minister Easter Westminister was given his Christian name because his parents were devout Catholics and took advantage of the rare chance to be reverse-eponymous when he was born on that particular holiday, a serendipitous event for his father, who dreaded his wife’s deviled eggs more than he dreaded watching her give birth, though in edibility the deviled eggs and an afterbirth were probably equal, social mores notwithstanding. Since it takes too much effort to call him Minister Easter Westminister, folks generally refer to him as East-West, though with respect. Pap used to say Minister Westminister was sort of like a saltine (more…)
