Looks damn fine - and I'm fantasising about the MOUNTAINS of Mammary Might trembling like a rising earthquake under that overworked magical top! And then seeing it give way under the OUTLANDISH pressure...

Anyone who gleefully sang 'Gas 'Em All' at any point in their life is about as anti-anti-Semitic as the Pharoah.

Seduced any parrots recently?

Immensely and unapologetically. There's an interesting Jungian streak to it, it you care to look. And - as with a lot of British SF - any victory that Humanity secures is Pyrrhic at best.

(Oh, and Peter Firth plays heroically, hilariously straight and Matilda May's breasts are PHENOMENAL.)

OO MISTRIS ME MISTRIS OVER HEAR MISTRIS /molesworth

Is that also where you first encountered the verb 'stotting'?

'They're going to kill us, aren't they?'