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ROD KER DON'T SNIFF AT IT...

Scotland’s celebrated source of wit and wisdom, Billy Connolly, aka the Big Yin, has retired. Now is not the time to ponder why a person of essentially small stature was ever referred to as big. However, the relevance here is that Glasgow’s (Smallish) Yin once observed that the Queen must believe the world smelled of paint, because everywhere she went had already been visited by a troupe of Royal decorators with pots of white gloss.

Very astute, but it made me think (which had to happen eventually) that the world would surely smell of everything except paint, because Her Madge’s hooter had been sucking fumes for 97 years and would

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