'Didn't Frankenstein get married?' 'Did he?' said Eggy. 'I don't know. I never met him. Harrow man, I expect.' - P. G. Wodehouse

There is about him something that seems to soothe and hypnotize. To the best of my knowledge, he has never encountered a charging rhinoceros, but should this contingency occur, I have no doubt that the animal, meeting his eye, would check itself in mid-stride, roll over and lie purring with its legs in the air.

A slight throbbing about the temples told me that this discussion had reached saturation point.

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.