"It looks as though it was put in by an Indian." He later backtracked: "I meant to say cowboys."

Do you still throw spears at each other?

I just wonder what it would be like to be reincarnated in an animal whose species had been so reduced in numbers than it was in danger of extinction. What would be its feelings toward the human species whose population explosion had denied it somewhere to exist. I must confess that I am tempted to ask for reincarnation as a particularly deadly virus.

In the days when the nation depended on agriculture for its wealth it made the Lord Chancellor sit on a woolsack to remind him where the wealth came from. I would like to suggest we remove that now and make him sit on a crate of machine tools.

I suppose I'd get in trouble if I were to melt them down.

That's a nice tie... Do you have any knickers in that material?

We didn't have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun. You just got on with it!