It may well have been one of the most popular sayings of the time Gnome - that is not the point. What Jom the infallible said was that "It'll all be over by Christmas" was a deliberate lie told to those volunteering by the government, at one point he told us all that it was a Government "promise" although exactly how he could have ever come up with that I have no idea.

As to which version is correct the IWM's or The Long, long