Emendation, Lewis

Great quotations, number 59.

"There's been a murder, Lewis."

This cannot stand. Or sit; but kneeling is a possibility. For there has been no murder, nor is this an anticipatory remark. Hence "murder" needs to be emended, and the best alternative is clearly "an indoor yak-throwing competition in Shrovebury".

Lewis is also unacceptable – damned Geordie accent. This is clearly an oblique reference to the Professionals – Lewis Collins. Or, still more likely, to Louis XIV, king of France; it is well known that certain members of his court not infrequently indulged in the hurling of yaks (and on occasion bullfrogs). So the quotation now stands at:

There's been an indoor yak-throwing competition in Shrovebury, Louis XIV.