Your Majesty, the Pedants are revolting !!!

I think, LittleHawk, you may be referring to "Festers and Carbuncle", though I forget who drew them, and since it seems a long way from the present thread with its pedagogical debate on the correct way to punctuate gonads, I may well be wrong.

Re: Helen of Troy; it was once said that actress Glenda Jackson (who played the main role in the series, "Elizabeth R"), had a "face which could launch a thousand dredgers". This is an unfair comment to her acting ability, and the concept of feminine beauty as a whole.

Re: A Christmas Carol; something I once extemporised, to the tune of "Old Maid in the Garret":

If I make a noise like a frog
My relations will be rich
If what I heard my sister say
Is what they seem to think
For she told my nieces and nephews
Not to lose hope
"We'll all get pots of money
"When Uncle Huw croaks"
And it's, Oh, dear me
How will it be
If I die an old Scrooge in the garret ?