A five pence fine is right and proper — and to sum up my defence it was his fault he came a cropper: CONTRIBUTORY NEGLIGENCE! - Attila the Stockbroker

For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it is our pleasure that it should be erased from the earth?

I am one of a team
of Iraqi weapons inspectors
currently travelling through the United Kingdom
under very difficult conditions
searching for weapons of mass distraction.

Hitching up the M11
coming back from a Dexys gig
got picked up 'bout half eleven
by this bloke in a funny wig