Aldous Huxley took the drug mescaline and then chronicled his experience in the book The Doors of Perception. Now, I don't actually think that's the first thing he wrote: he probably wrote 'my brain is melting' ten thousand times, but it was the book that the critics latched on to.

The BBC did a survey of the top 50 things to do before we die. Not while we're still alive, before we die.

American rock has a sort of self-pitying whine to it.

Work hard, save and live within your means.

Three women walk into a pub and say, `Hooray, we've colonised a male-dominated joke format'

I spent my childhood scrambling round badgers and foxes and playing fantastic country kid games like knocking on people's doors and running away. God that was a good game.

I got ham but I'm not a Hamster