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• THE WORST ANIMAL RESCUE During the firemen's strike of 1978
  he British Army had taken over emergency firefighting and on 14 January they were called out by an elderly lady in South London to retrieve her cat which had become trapped up a tree....
• The Least Successful Animal Rescue The firemen's strike of 1978 made possible one of the great animal rescue attempts of all time.
  Valiantly, the British Army had taken over emergency firefighting and on 14 January they were called out by an elderly lady in South London to retrieve her cat which had become trapped up a tree....
• COONDOG MEMORY (heard in Rutledge, Missouri, about eighteen years ago) Now
  his dog is for sale, and she can not only follow a trail twice as old as the average dog can, but she's got a pretty good memory to boot....
• The Least Successful Defrosting Device The all-time record here is held by Mr.
  Peter Rowlands of Lancaster whose lips became frozen to his lock in 1979 while blowing warm air on it....
• The Worst Car Hire Service When David Schwartz left university in 1972, he set up Rent-a-wreck as a joke.
  Being a natural prankster, he acquired a fleet of beat-up shabby, wreckages waiting for the scrap heap in California....
• Failed Attempts To Break Records In September 1978 Mr.
  Terry Gripton, of Stafford, failed to break the world shouting record by two and a half decibels....
• Jacques: First, you must get to know your lane. Feel the slickness, feel the slippery finish.
  Caresses it, experience it. Quite smooth, isn't it?...
• The Worst American Poet Julia Moore, "the Sweet Singer of Michigan" (1847-1920) was so bad that Mark Twain said her first book gave him joy for 20 years.
  Her verse was mainly concerned with violent death -- the great fire of Chicago and the yellow fever epidemic proved natural subjects for her pen....
• Barlow: So, my friends, let's just junk those Dumbocrats and their bleeding-heart smellfare program.
  Lisa: Dad, I had to listen to this jerk all morning....