Oh, pish posh!

Pish posh: nonsense, something absurd.

Pish Posh: a children's novel by Ellen Potter. It tells the story of a young girl, Clara Frankofile, who is a pompous, snobbish 11-year-old who spends her evenings people-watching from a corner table in her parents' chic New York City restaurant, Pish Posh.

An incontinent is singing Scarpia: see Rancid Pansies

Rancid Pansies, by James Hamilton-Paterson
(Rancid Pansies: anagram of Princess Diana)

Book three in the “Gerald Samper” series (Cooking with Fernet Branca, Amazing Disgrace).


(...) After his recent travails, Gerald is hoping to find a new world far from his humiliating hackery, and opera seems to fit the bill. As he says, it's "a scene more in sympathy with my true talents, where serious people discuss serious things like portamento and whether Tito Gobbi was incontinent onstage singing Scarpia to Callas's Tosca at Covent Garden in 1964."

And again:

As Rancid Pansies opens, Samper is recuperating in Sussex at the home of the famous conductor Max Christ ("Shit might pretzel Christ's intestines") (...)

Rancid Pansies, by James Hamilton-Paterson (Barnes & Noble)
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Interesting Reviews

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"Bdelloids rotifiers join the chitterling circuit"

Bdelloids rotifiers
Join the chitterling circuit.

(from "See You Don't Bump His Head")

Bdelloid rotifers are microscopic invertebrate animals best known for their ancient asexuality and the ability to survive desiccation at any life stage.

Bdelloid rotifers: 80 million years without sex (scienceblogs.com)
Niente sesso, siamo rotiferi (www.lescienze.it)


Chitlin's (or chitterlings) are pork intestines, usually cooked with a breading and fried until crisp in bacon fat. 

The "Chitlin' Circuit" is the collective name given to the string of performance venues throughout the eastern and southern United States that were safe and acceptable for African American musicians, comedians, and other entertainers to perform in during the age of racial segregation in the United States (...). The name derives from the soul food item chitterlings (stewed pig intestines) and is also a play on the term "Borscht Belt" which referred to a group of venues (primarily in New York's Catskill Mountains) popular with Jewish performers during the 1940s, 50s and 60s. (Wikipedia)

Borscht -> Bosh?

www.southernsoulrnb.com/what_is_chitlin_circuit.cfm
The Story Of The Chitlin' Circuit's Great Performers (www.npr.org) 

“See You Don’t Bump His Head” (in quotation marks!)

It's raining, it's pouring,
The old man is snoring.
He went to bed and bumped his head,
And he couldn't get up in the morning.

 American nursery rhyme (Roud Folk Song Index n. 16814)

"Bish Bosh" = Bish + Bosch + Bish bosh

"I was thinking about making the title refer to a mythological, all-encompassing, giant woman artist" 

Bish (n.sl.): bitch

Bosch, Hieronymous (c. 1450 – 1516): Dutch painter

Bish bosh (sl.): job done, sorted

www.bishbosch.com/biog

The Guardian interview (2012, nov.23)