A trim-middled hog will have a higher dressing percentage than a wasty, gutty, paunchy, heavy-middled hog.

With all due respect, sir, Shibli said, your operation at Site Tango had all the finesse of a goat-fuck. …

Every institution, it seems, runs on ungrace and its insistence that we earn our way.

That whole campaign was a damp squib, they cranked it up as a real possibility that Scotland might win, and when we actually got there it didn't happen like that, and everybody came home quite early with their tails between their legs.