With the blockbuster success of the movie How the Grinch Stole Christmas (starring Jim Carrey) over Christmas 2000, the Seussification of commercial pop culture was pretty well complete.

Observers noted that Chinese variolators in Vietnam exhibited one or two slight variations in their practice, however, one constant factor is that they all introduced inoculum into the nasal passages.

The occasion was private and there were no reporters, but Lord Roxton's speech was fixed verbatim in the minds of all his audience and has been imperishably preserved.

1986 April 16, Midland Insurance was placed in conservancy., Los Angeles Times http://articles.latimes.com/1986-04-16/business/fi-268_1_midland-insurance