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[7] So popular with Brentonians was this that it ran for three years.

[8] John Cooper Clarke actually once played a gig at the Waterman's Arts Centre. Its most memorable feature was the post-gig fight in the dressing room between John and his manager over who got to keep the gig money. The word 'allegedly' will not be used here, as this is a fact.

[9] Oh, that's how it was done! Well, that explains everything most satisfactorily.

[10] The Great Beast. As in the Book of Revelation.

[11] David Blaine. He's in that car commercial, the one where he says 'think of a card'.

[12] The official Runese Universal greeting. It means, literally, 'I myself am foil of happiness and joy and peace and find absolutely nothing to complain about in this wonderful wonderful world. But meeting you has made things even better.'

[13] 'That goes for me too. Doubly.'

[14] The late Hartley Grimes, fashionable twenty-first-century artist who specialized in human body parts, many of which were his own which he removed under local anaesthetic before an invited audience. Hartley Grimes's work is believed to owe an homage to Damien Hirst. As well as Jack the Ripper.

[15] Runese: 'I thought things couldn't get any better, and then I met you. Incredible!'

[16] 'That goes for me too. Doubly.’

[17] If you know about that, then you know. If not, I'm not going to tell you.

[18] The film Zulu. But you knew that anyway.