Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em.

It's not Brits who think American readers are a bunch of whinging morons with the geo-social understanding of a wire coathanger, it's American editors.

The English were notoriously unenthusiastic about burning witches. I suppose ours were too soggy.

Ach, people are always telling us not to do things" said Rob Anybody, "that's how we ken the most interesting things to do.

She wore so much thick white makeup in order to conceal her naturally rosy complexion that if she turned around suddenly her face would probably end up on the back of her head.

Soon to come in licorice, orange, cinnamon, and banana, but not strawberry, because I hate strawberries.

Sister Mary was a nurse and nurses, whatever their creed, are primarily nurses, which had a lot to do with wearing your watch upside down, keeping calm in emergencies, and dying for a cup of tea.