Be fair to the lizards, if you drop dead in a locked room with a dog or cat, it is going to start chewing on you when it gets hungry enough.

Given time, those pooches that looked on with interest when Bush keeled over, would have done the same.

I still think it sounds a lot like the open door that people blame when the bruises get a bit too obvious. As I said, if he'd died, would anyone have believed the pretzel theory?

King John was supposed to have died from "a surfeit of lampreys" which was widely taken to have meant he had been poisoned. But a surfeit of pretzels?