for the average gastropod...

Oh I see now - I first read that as quadroped - which made a sort of sense with respect of canines - oak, ask, thorn, lamp posts etc.

Ah, that'll sort of be Sweeney thinks he is more important than UNESCO.

Not at all, at all, Richard - just cautious of subjecting the vibrancy of human culture to the fundamentalist folk fantasies of academia that's all.

Why did you quote that anyway?