We pretty near biled ourselves and Miss Euly done got her bes' pink apron stained, an' I dropped Sis Suky's big kitchen spoon in de hogshead of sand […]

At one stage a group called British People Against Racial Discrimination complained to the Advertising Standards Board in Australia about an advert for Tooheys beer that claimed it was ‘cold enough to scare a Pom’.

My other name's Bill, he said. I was christened Bill but Mr Thursgood calls me William. / Bill, eh. The unpaid Bill. Anyone ever call you that? / No, sir. / Good name, anyway. / Yes, sir. / Known a lot of Bills. They've all been good 'uns.

I do not think the press is an enemy of the people, but, as Dwight Eisenhower said in 1964, its ranks are filled with sensation-seeking columnists and commentators whose writings mark them as little more than intellectualoids.