Many words and expressions which only a matter of decades ago were considered so distastefully explicit that, were they merely to be breathed in public, the perpetrator would be shunned, barred from polite society, and in extreme cases shot through the lungs, are now thought to be very healthy and proper, and their use in everyday speech and writing is evidence of a well-adjusted, relaxed and totally un****ed-up personality.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my life-style

The dew has fallen with a particularly sickening thud this morning.

I wanted to be John Cleese. It took me some time to realise that the job was taken.

Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.

It takes a long time before we really get to grips with this [Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species'] and begin to understand it, because not only does it seem incredible and thoroughly demeaning to us, but it's yet another shock to our system to discover that not only are we not the centre of the Universe and we're not made by anything, but we started out as some kind of slime and got to where we are via being a monkey. It just doesn't read well.