A counter tenor is anyone who can count to ten.

And when you're on your own there is that terrifying possibility that you may be the only person on the planet who thinks it's funny - and you have no way of finding out.

Then after that came word processors and it's hard to make those laugh.

If the laughter of the audience was malicious we wouldn't show it.

What is a harp but an oversized cheese slicer with cultural pretensions?

It's like your children talking about holidays, you find they have a quite different memory of it from you. Perhaps everything is not how it is, but how it's remembered.

I defy anyone to get a decision that quickly these days.