An American take - much bigger, but not better?

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This explains much. Laura tells me that as I get older, I get increasingly crabby.

Puer, oh puer, oh puer!

I cannot conceive! (Carry on Follow That Camel)

A much maligned gentleman. See "A vindication of the memory of Mr. Chubb, from the scurrilous and groundless calumnies suggested by a late infamous libel." (1747)

Well, the family have now forbidden the song. So now it is either going to endless loops of The Sun has Got His Hat On or You Are My Sunshine, my Only Sunshine. At least there is a Johnny Cash version of the latter,

I play this one on my birthday:
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I staggered into Twitter looking for my usual Aspidistra to hide behind, but it was dead and all my pals had buggered off! And what on earth is X?

Thank you very much, Anita. Nice to see you again.

Thanks Keith. I popped into Twitter and found it full of tumbleweed and sinister guys with week-old stubble dressed in ‘dusters’. Then I saw the trail of breadcrumbs …