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Do you need an air rifle to shoot the breeze?

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(Vincent Hefter, Daily Mail, Feb 11)

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"I told you it was flipping dangerous," writes Eddie 'the Eagle' Edwards on Shrove
Tuesday (about ski jumping). Pretty much what my wife says to me when I make a
complete mess of tossing a pancake: "I told you it was dangerous flipping"...

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(Vincent Hefter, Daily Mail, Feb 11 - heavily edited!)

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"Say it with flowers," they say. But a monthly £1,200 blooms bill? (news item). Proof
positive, surely, that the House of Lords has more than its fair share of windbags?
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