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• 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....
• 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....
• The Least Successful Collector Betsy Baker played a central role in the history of collecting.
  She was employed as a servant in the house of John Warburton (1682-1759) who had amassed a fine collection of 58 first edition plays, including most of the works of Shakespeare....
• The Least Successful Police Dogs America has a very strong candidate in "La Dur", a fearsome looking schnauzer hound, who was retired from the Orlando police force in Florida in 1978.
  He consistently refused to do anything which might ruffle or offend the criminal classes....
• The Worst Jury A murder trial at Manitoba in February 1978 was well advanced, when one juror revealed that he was completely deaf and did not have the remotest clue what was happening.
  The judge, Mr. Justice Solomon, asked him if he had heard any evidence at all and, when there was no reply, dismissed him....
• 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 Least Perceptive Literary Critic The most important critic in our field of study is Lord Halifax.
  A most individual judge of poetry, he once invited Alexander Pope round to give a public reading of his latest poem....
• The Worst Lines of Verse For a start, we can rule out James Grainger's promising line
  "Come, muse, let us sing of rats." Grainger (1721-67) did not have the courage of his convictions and deleted these words on discovering that his listeners dissolved into spontaneous laughter the instant they were read out....
• Marge: I've got to tell Homer about this baby in just the right way and at just the right time.
  Until then, please, keep this to yourselves....