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A contribution from Imre which’ll lighten things up a bit, except for those contributors with a permanent humour by-pass: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,15809876%255E37556,00.html And, http://www.smh.com.au/news/heckler/a-bother-for-the-bookish/2005/07/07/1120704490610.html...