McAleese was well drilled for the meeting, because when she greeted the Queen she managed to suppress her natural impulse to pat her on the hand.
The research also finds no climate-friendly scenario in which any oil or gas is drilled in the Arctic.
Next we come to the award for best unspun moment, of increasing importance in these days of control freak spin doctors and tightly drilled politicians.
"We drilled it and drilled it and got everything ready and I remember immediately after Salmond had finished speaking on the white paper, we looked at each other because we brought economists from London to look at it and we thought – is that it," says Blair McDougall, Better Together's chief executive.
He admits leading the opposition to a small gas well drilled nearby in 1989: "At the time we didn't know what it would do to the area.
As a result of the prejudice shown, Shakur's grandparents drilled into her the idea of personal dignity.
Yet Danny Boyle proved that Glastonbury-style euphoria could beat ruthlessly drilled choreography any day.
Derbyshire, their top scorer, drilled over and then hooked wide, with the best chance falling to Frecklington in between those two efforts.
Feeding into five or so holes drilled into the wide concrete tube, families link their wastewater pipes together like a web, sometimes with unpleasant results.
His team looked to reach for the highest peg in the sky, drilled only in the punt; Blackwell was a goalkeeper.
Exploration firm UK Oil & Gas Investments (UKOG) last year drilled a well at Horse Hill, near Gatwick Airport.
