Must he
go wrong all through wi' this side, or must he
go wrong all through wi' that, or else be hunted like a hare?'
It was Pantocyclus -- the illustrious Circle mentioned above, as the queller of the Colour Revolt -- who first convinced mankind that Configuration makes the man; that if, for example, you are born an Isosceles with two uneven sides, you will assuredly
go wrong unless you have them made even -- for which purpose you must go to the Isosceles Hospital; similarly, if you are a Triangle, or Square, or even a Polygon, born with any Irregularity, you must be taken to one of the Regular Hospitals to have your disease cured; otherwise you will end your days in the State Prison or by the angle of the State Executioner.
But presently something seemed to
go wrong with the pirates; they stopped laughing and cracking jokes; they looked puzzled; something was making them uneasy.
For some years the poor man lived on alone with the children, caring for them as best he could; but everything in the house seemed to
go wrong without a woman to look after it, and at last he made up his mind to marry again, feeling that a wife would bring peace and order to his household and take care of his motherless children.
"With so good a memory," said the duke, "Sancho cannot
go wrong in anything."
When things
go wrong at ten o'clock in the morning we--or rather you--swear and knock the furniture about; but if the misfortune comes at ten P.M., we read poetry or sit in the dark and think what a hollow world this is.
"And if a little more should be needed, we must not let him
go wrong for the want of a thousand or two.
"My thoughts are us-u-al-ly cor-rect, but it is Smith & Tin-ker's fault if they some-times
go wrong or do not work prop-er-ly."
Golf can be such a cruel game when it goes wrong - and boy did it
go wrong. Hitting a spectator in a devastating quadruple bogey at the first on Thursday certainly sucked the air out of Royal Portrush.
ANOTHER MUST SEE ...WHEN CRUISES
GO WRONG (Channel 4, 9pm) Traditionally, cruising was something that wealthy, retired people did.
Odds are extremely high nothing will
go wrong, so why not self-insure, even if unknowingly, if hardly anything ever goes wrong?
The play introduces The 'Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society' who are attempting to put on a 1920s' murder mystery, but as the title suggests, everything that can
go wrong does, as the accident prone thespians battle on against all the odds to get to their final curtain call.