Quote of the day
It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.
Robert Rankin
Born: July 27, 1949 (age 76)
Bio: Robert Fleming Rankin is a prolific British humorous novelist. Born in Parsons Green, London, he started writing in the late 1970s, and first entered the bestsellers lists with Snuff Fiction in 1999, by which time his previous eighteen books had sold around one million copies.
Known for:
- The Antipope (1981)
- The Brentford Triangle (1982)
- East of Ealing (1984)
- The Witches of Chiswick (2003)







