GROAN WITH TWOTWNo one would have believed, in the last instants of World War I, that television soaps were being watched from a yacht in Portsmouth harbour. No one could have dreamed that flogging and branding would be reintroduced. Few gerbil hunters even considered the inevitability of an invasion of killer voles. And yet, across the M4 near Reading, minds immeasurably weirder than ours, regarded a pair of Levi's 501s with four oculars. And slowly and surely, they cancelled their 'Newsweek' subscriptions. |