Peter Skellern "anecdote". (on Russell Harty, I think). One of his early jobs was in a pub where he was told, by the boss, to unclog the gents' urinal. He was busy using a combination of plunger and fingers when a customer stood beside him and casually used the urinal (the long "communal" type) without batting an eyelid to the poor Mr Skellern's arduous task ..... he said that at that moment he knew that life could never get much worse.