I was at a party many years ago and got chatting to a guy. The usual small-talk "Oh, so what is it you do?" and he explained he set the crossword for one of the broadsheets. And I did a big… (View Post)

I am getting dizzy with HY tonight. But this came to mind from Douglas Adams on the Babel Fish. --- Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could hav… (View Post)

I think it was the 'go with the flow, whatever furthers my profile' Portillo. So both really. (View Post)

The best of British, to you! And now I somewhat inappropriately want to watch the old (and I'm sure rather cancelled) Peter Sellers film "The Party". (View Post)

I was going to post a reference to Chelsea Strip's - but a quick google to double check suggests that all involved now say it was made up. Maybe they made that up though. In any case, I blame Ke… (View Post)