Throughout 1970 there were repeated calls, particularly from Brian Hogan and Owens, for the banning of dogmen riding hooks, a demand firmly resisted by employers unwilling to hire the extra dogmen required. Accordingly, during 1972 the union embarked upon a concerted campaign to enforce the use of two dogmen on each crane.

It’s little wonder the term “post nut clarity” has taken off in recent years. Defined by Urban Dictionary as “the immediate clear mindedness or soberness an individual gains after orgasming,” it’s a non-scientifically proven condition which largely exists to excuse away men’s poor post-coital behaviour.

For example, the figure-eight would now be performed on only half of a basketball court (Fig. 15-1).

[They] deformed their children with laying one boord on the fore-head, and another in the necke […] to make them broad-faced, shauing away the haire of the crowne and necke, and letting it growe on the sides, making it curle and bush out to more monstrositie.