Because since the tragic death of Norris McWhirter, no-one on Earth has been that clever.
Not even those Indian kids who sit A-Level computing when they're 5.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 11 May 2011, 17:48, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

Talking of five-year-old Indian kids
did anyone ever substantiate the rumours about (the unquestionably very clever) Arthur C Clarke and his predilection for pre-pubescent Sri Lankan beach boys?
(Happybara The jungle came alive and took him, Wed 11 May 2011, 17:52, Reply)

It was widely known, for sure.
Mind you, it's 'widely known' that Sir Jimmy Savile is a necrophiliac. Lots of lies are 'well known facts' I suppose.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 11 May 2011, 17:54, Reply)

Weird.
There's a very Jimmy Savile-like character in an Irving Welsh novel who gets to play with the corpses at his local hospital because he's such a generous benefactor. Perhaps that's where the rumours began.

In space no one can hear you dock...
(Happybara The jungle came alive and took him, Wed 11 May 2011, 18:04, Reply)

That's basically the Savile story, relating to Stoke Mandeville hospital.
I do know that he was a very feared man in the clubland of the early 60s. The Krays left him well alone in Leeds and instead try to move in on Manchester and I believe Liverpool. They failed at that, too, anyway.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 11 May 2011, 18:09, Reply)

He's indisputably a creepy fucker.
I'd always had him down as a paedo. When I worked at the Beeb, a transcript of his guest appearance on Have I Got News for You did the rounds - it was an out-take in which Paul Merton basically accuses him of being a nonce then storms out.
(Happybara The jungle came alive and took him, Wed 11 May 2011, 18:16, Reply)