GROAN WITH TWOTWNo one would have believed, in the last femtoseconds of Lord Justice Fauntleroy's summing up, that we were being watched from a yacht in Portsmouth harbour. No one could have dreamed that Madonna would win the Eurovision song contest. Few cat lovers even considered the risk of being consumed by a custard beast. And yet, across the Gulf of Mexico, minds immeasurably more hip and trendy than ours, regarded this Earth with ill-concealed envy. And slowly and surely, they cancelled their 'Newsweek' subscriptions. |