On a school trip to westminster cathedral when I were a nipper...
we walked past the armour of Edward, the Black Prince. If you haven't seen it, it's a massive chainmail doublet topped off with a huuuuuuge knights helmet, replete with a jumping lion on top. Very regal. Quite impressive as well.

So there's these two American tourists behind me, and in the fuckwitted understatement competition of the year, they had this exchange:

"Gee. It must have been awfully hot in summertime."
"Yup. Especially with that hat."
(vertigo, Wed 12 Jan 2005, 16:12, Reply)