Douglas Adams vs.politicians
I went to see Douglas Adams talk at the hay festival of literature years back, he was a very clever, very humane kind of fellow. Also very tall - I'm over 6' myself - well worth listening to as well, the talk was mainly about his conservation interests and i was completely fascinated. It's a great shame he died :( He was late for the show and just apologised, hypothesising that london was basically one of those move -the-squares puzzles with the one missing square, and his taxi filled the one gap and log-jammed it all solid. Fair enough- my parents went to a talk by jeffery Archer around the same time, he was equally late and blamed his driver, calling him many bad things. There's the difference. If Archer had died instead, all would be well.

Margaret beckett, hardly one of my heroes, seemed very short when I met her in the house of commons ... Height has no bearing on rank, it seems.
(Jack Rarebit ...We like chillies, Mon 29 May 2006, 23:51, Reply)