Today's great obituary, or There'll always be an England

From alt.obituaries comes the following:

Lord Kilbracken (Filed: 15/08/2006) Telegraph

The 3rd Lord Kilbracken, who died yesterday aged 85, hit the headlines in 1957 when he succeeded in gatecrashing the Great Red Square parade in Moscow on the 40th anniversary of the October uprising, wearing a pink Leander tie and with his trousers turned inside out.

( And if you can resist reading the rest of this, you're a better person than I am! )

Today's bon mot

From an email list I'm on comes the following:

Many years ago when I was a parishioner at the cathedral, the dean made the switch from red to white wine without telling anyone it was going to happen. The cathedral uses silver flagons and so it was not readily apparent until one took a sip from the chalice.

One of the grand matriarchs of the parish rose from kneeling at the altar rail and slowly made her way across the chancel to her seat after making her communion. In a wonderful throaty stage whisper that comes only from years of smoking she grandly announced: "I was not aware our Lord was anemic."