I had a colonoscopy and once I started inhaling the laughing gas I was in Lala land. They could have stuffed a lamp post up there, and I would neither have felt it or cared.
If you were disabled, mentally ill, poor or disadvantaged in any way then this country was a paradise under Labour compared to the Bullingdon Boys reign of destruction.
My two favourites;
First from a John Lee Hooker cd booklet which said that he'd worked with artists ranging from Van Morrison to Canned Meat.
Second from the Grauniad obituary for Mel Torme. His nickname was the Velvet Fog & there was a photo with the caption 'Mel Torme - The Velvet Frog'.
I believed him because that was his experience. Eric Allison wrote an interesting piece recently in the Guardian about drugs in prison and made the same point.