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After tasting the meat pies, Samantha said she liked Mr Dewhurst's beef in ale; although she preferred his tongue in cider.
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Now it's time to play a brand new game called Name That Barcode. Here's the first one: "Thick black, thin white, thick black, thick white, thick black, thin white." OK who's going to identify that?
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As we journey through life, discarding baggage along the way, we should keep an iron grip, to the very end, on the capacity for silliness. It preserves the soul from desiccation.
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An interviewer had researched Lyttleton's other interests and asked him about "orthinology" (sic). Lyttleton said that he kept a straight face and answered the question but 24 hours later thought of what he should have replied: "Oh, you mean word-botching".
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Well as the vanquished charwoman of time begins to Shake-n-Vac the shagpile of eternity, I've noticed that we've just run out of time...
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Born:
May 23, 1921
Died:
April 25, 2008
(aged 86)
Bio:
Humphrey Richard Adeane Lyttelton, also known as Humph, was an English jazz musician and broadcaster from the aristocratic Lyttelton family.
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