Bill Russell on keeping his hands up during a traffic stop.

[Joe Chi Minh]

89. Yup. It might just as well have been about one of the matches he played in !

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Or what he said to his grandma, before leaving her place on such and such a date. The potential permutations are endless. Maybe just something mentioning the word, 'police'. Or - for crying out loud - a cardiac 'arrest' !

You remind me of a kid in our class. We were being taught about the potato blight in Ireland by our history teacher, Mr Leonard - we nicknamed Old Ben, or Neb Dranoel, according to how charitably disposed we were - who was an incredibly strict disciplinarian. If you fiddled with a ruler he'd snarl at you. Most teachers love you to ask questions, He didn't.

Piccard put up his hand. Old Ben turned to him and snarled : 'What is it, Piccard ?' Piccard : 'Please, Sir, we had blight in our apple tree.' Well, the normal tension in his classes meant we doubled up, and, funnily enough, so did he - it was such an outrageously childish, utterly irrelevant nugget of information ! I wish you'd been in our class, Oberliner. Only you'd have been serious. Adding, no doubt, still further to the humour.

Sugar Ray Dranoel doesn't sound right, does it ? But then a clearer case of lese-majeste would be difficult to imagine.