Nuts ... What Nuts ?

The catering service providing snacks at a teachers' Professional Development Centre showed keenness to notify those attending a course on 'Managing the Behaviour of Under 5s'. Immediately under this title was the advice 'These biscuits may contain nuts'. If, as one suspects, the course was about aspects of poor behaviour among the young, then the notice should, perhaps, have read 'These nuts may contain biscuits'?

Spring to Life

Reference has made in relation to O: The Intimate History of the Orgasm by Jonathan Margolis (Arrow £7.99) that the serotonin rush on the right side of the brain is clocked at 156 mph. With, say, two orgasms a week at 10 seconds per frantic surge then that's a total of almost 15 ecstatic minutes a year. Who was it who said that if all the participants were laid end-to-end, he wouldn't be a bit surprised ?