GROAN WITH TWOTWNo one would have believed, in the last years of World War I, that the Stock Market was being watched from a Portakabin near Charnock Richard services. No one could have dreamed that a Bolivian would fail to be elected Chief Vizier of Tristan de Cunha. Few left-handed Armenian clergymen even considered the advantages of eating more than two shredded wheat. And yet, across the Gulfs of Madras, minds immeasurably weirder than ours, regarded a green and slightly runny pigeon dropping with envious eyes. And slowly and surely, they contracted foot and mouth disease. |