This one's up Brian's street, I fancy!
Oh dear, "applicable to the present times" lets me out, if it implies politics... but, then, just because Boris is cited doesn't mean 'present times' can't include other areas so I shall have a go. (Much prefer a regular rhyme comp though.)
Jayne
The Oldie Competition
by Tessa Castro
COMPETITION NO 166
In
The Wit and Wisdom of Boris Johnson (compiled by the brilliant Harry Mount), an example of the former, and possibly of the latter, is the remark: ‘Without the oil of hypocrisy, the machinery of convention would simply explode.’ Please invent as many well-turned examples as you wish of such wit, applicable to the present times.
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