Let Me Show You a Trick With a Dollar...

Shackleton said at dinner last night.

Do you have a dollar?

In my purse.

OK. Put your hands on the table.

Like this?

No the other way.

Palms down?

Yeah. Hold on.

[Shack comes back with two coffee mugs filled with water]

Now put the dollar on the table between your hands.

OK

Make your hands as flat as you can.

OK.

[He balances the coffee mugs on my hands, very precariously, grabs the dollar and runs away].

It Has Come to This...

Some comedians asked the Internet to write a fake book - no one even read it in it's entirety before it was published as an e-book. Only requirement: lots of sex and characters with trendy jobs.

It is now number four on the ebook best seller list. Numbers one, two and three are Fifty Shades of Grey.