[Jean-Claude] Juncker gave an emotional valedictory. When he stopped speaking, an Italian journalist stood up. History will judge you, Mr Juncker, the journalist said solemnly, but we will never forget you before urging a round of applause for the Luxembourger's 30 years as a true European.

My nan has got dottier and dottier since passing the age of eighty.

Possibly a lot of them gained entry because there were so many other strange bees in the hive, but once they started to load up and run, the natives joined with the old ones and gave them the old heave-ho.

Punning, and competition therein, was encouraged—nay, actively abetted—by Callahan, himself a hopeless and utterly shameless paronomasiac.