...some of the general rules and inventions for drinking, as good as printed precepts or statutes by act of parliament, that go from drunkard to drunkard; as... to have some shoeing-horn to pull on your wine, as a rasher on the coals or a red herring... Shoeing-horns, sometimes called gloves, are also described by Bishop Hall in his Mundus alter et idem. Then sir, comes me up a service of shoeing-horns of all sorts; salt cakes, red herrings, anchovies, and gammon of bacon, and abundance of such pullers on. ... And yet a drawer-on too; i.e.an incitement to appetite: the phrase is yet in use. This drawer-on was also technically termed a puller-on, and a shoeing-horn in drink.

I can't remember who else played – it was a weekender and all sorts of local bands were on – but we were the only 'punk' band […]

I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations.

That blood and pain paid a dividend, too, even when the subject wasn't a sorcerer.