WHEN I USE A WORD

Here's mud in your eye

“Can this be true?” my wife asked. “It says here that drinking three to five glasses of wine a day is good for you.” “If it says it in the Times,” I said, making the sign of St Rupert, “it must be true.” “But that's at least 21 units a week.” We discussed the toxicology of alcohol. “Well,” she said, in typical no nonsense fashion, “it sounds like all my eye.” …