This congestion in the post offices is due to what are technically known as "regulations" but what are really a series of acrostics and anagrams devised by some officials who got around a table one night and tried to be funny.

You want to go easy on the suicide stuff - first thing you know, you'll ruin your health.

I don't trust a bank that would lend money to such a poor risk.

A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.

I can remember the day when all that a professor was supposed to do was to mark "C minus" on students' examination papers, then gohome to tea. Nowadays they seem to feel that they must know just how much we (outside the university) eat, what we do with our spare time, and how we like our eggs.

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

If you think that you have caught a cold, call in a good doctor. Call in three good doctors and play bridge.