'Vote Tomkins — For a Better World Today'

You may or may not recall a post about Hermès' $450 chopsticks (above) which appeared in bookofjoe last November 29.

Recall? Heck, you may not even have been born then. But I digress.

One of my many British readers is the cynosural Financial Times columnist Richard Tomkins.

His piece in today's paper began, "How much should you expect to pay for a pair of luxury chopsticks?"

He went on, "... as a reader has brought to my attention, there are the ones that Hermès offers, in somewhat plain-looking silver and wood, for $490."

Inflation. But I digress yet again.

I am delighted to see that the work of my crack research team is not going unnoticed but rather is drawing the attention of journalists and others worldwide in search of the new new thing.

Though Tomkins has not yet declared I do believe that popular demand may yet cause this modest, rather retiring man to throw his hat into the ring as a write-in candidate — do they have such a thing in the U.K.? —

in the upcoming race for Prime Minister.