G'day Brett,

Don't bite ... it's contagious!

We forget that you poor Yanks grewe up deprived of the glorious Goon Show - years of inspired ½-hours of hilarious insanity from Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, (later Sir) Harry Secombe ... and sundry other suspicious characters.

The word "lurgi" (or "lurgy") comes from an episode called The Dreaded Lurgi ... and has given yet another new, goon-inspired word to the English-speaking world (but not America).

Regard(les)s,

Bob