5 Worst Times For Your Water To Break

Ranked in ascending order of foulness:

  • Halfway up the Matterhorn
  • The day before you start a new job (i.e. they don’t have to give you maternity leave)
  • During your wedding ceremony
  • While receiving oral sex (and before having your orgasm)
  • A week after the United States has instituted a “single payer” (i.e. NHS) healthcare system.

Your suggestions in Comments. I can’t wait to hear from my Lady Readers.

Me, Too

Perry de Havilland of samizdata and I have had our (slight) differences in the past, but on this topic we are in precise agreement:

The Englishman, for one, still wants to see Heath’s body disinterred, quartered and the skull stuck on a pike outside Traitor’s Gate at the Tower of London.

And if the expression “drone strikes on Brussels” doesn’t give you the Warm & Fuzzies, I don’t want to talk to you anymore.

Beating The Odds

It seems that if a young actress wants to live to a ripe old age, she must at all costs refuse to play the wacky but lovable sister of any of Hugh Grant’s movie characters.

Item 1:  Charlotte Coleman, wacky sister Scarlett in 4 Weddings And A Funeral:

Dead at age 33 (asthma).

Item #2:  Emma Chambers, wacky sister Honey in Notting Hill:

Dead at age 53 (kidney failure).

Is Hugh Grant the Devil? I think we should be told.