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• Traditionally, wake-up calls are meant to wake you up rather than send you to sleep: the clue is in the wording. But…
• Comedy is the slave of time. What seemed funny then is unlikely to seem funny now, just as what strikes us as…
• Like many men who play tennis, when I hit a ball into the net, I tend to look daggers at my racket,…
• One of the many joys of tongue-twisters is that they serve no purpose beyond fun.
• It is only if you happen to be a newscaster that the tongue-twister spells peril.
• There are few things quite so effortlessly enjoyable as watching an eminent person getting in a huff and flouncing out of a…
• The only behaviour that is truly common is to avoid doing something because you think others might consider it common.
• Over the years, the idea seems to have grown up that brightly coloured flowers are vulgar, and that the only flowers to…
• Tweeting is the go-to medium for the show-off and the shyster.
• I have twice met Jeffrey Archer, and on both occasions was struck by the firmness of his handshake - and the way…
• For some reason, it is always thrilling to spot your home town in the news.
• The first sign builders are on their way is when - hey, presto! - a skip appears outside your house.

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