1. Alan Ross scoring the winning poem in extra-time, Wembley 1966.
2. Will Shakespeare, after accidentally discovering (300 odd years
before Tomothy Leary) hallucinogenic mushrooms on his way home from the
pub with Ben, being harangued by a small winged creature about always
giving his best speeches to Kings & Fools.
3. William de Kooning spilling acid on Jeremy Prynne's OED.
4. The Blessed Hugh's night of intimacy, while pissed, with a thistle,
which union engendered, belatedly, the present Parliament.
5. The poem "Deutschland Uber Alles" staying at the top of the charts in
Europe circa 1936 for several years.
6. The movie of Philip Larkin's life: "Coventry's what I forget with."
7. The Battle of The Poetry Society, c 1969, won by the janitors.
8. My 33 year old friend labelled with Asperger's Disorder who, if his
laces start out at the exact same length at each end, can do up his
shoes in about 15 minutes, whose favourite insect is what "ordinary
people call a wasp, but I call a Bee-Wolf."

There's probably more, but mercifully I have to go to work.
Take it away, gang.
Pete.


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