While
we could bore you absolutely silly with an assortment of trivia,
facts, events and a vast if unresolved catalogue of know-it-all,
there are people who have already done a better job at it:
Vivian
Stanshall among 'Fusty
cairns of collapsing pawpaws and mildewed mountains of pears. Avocados-sloped
and conference summit. Hasty breast-works of dusty pistachios stemming
the topple of Philbert and walnut...Tumbling, rumbling over banana
ha-has and gooseberry glades.'