Even by Berlusconi's standards, however, this was hard for Italians to swallow – even, it transpired, for most of the very ministers he had ordered to resign.
It is a story that I think about often, and I will always be thankful for how it transpired: for out of adversity and challenge a new path was forged.
It transpires that for many months Mr Martin had covertly been monitoring the comings and goings at the attendance register in Strasbourg.
And when it transpires that, for good measure, she has locked him out of the house and frozen his access to their bank account, and that his employers, who had said that he could keep the company car till the end of the month, have decided to reclaim it after all, you don't know whether to laugh or cry.
The real question, of course, is an obvious one: why has the jet stream changed its behaviour?" The answer is very worrying, for it transpires that meteorologists may find it increasingly hard to make long-term assessments of future weather with their former confidence.
Yet at least Fàbregas has company on the naughty step, for it transpires that Arsenal's Aaron Ramsey and West Ham's captain, Mark Noble, have each lost 20 challenges as well.
It transpires that the trailer is for Stanley Kubrick's leering, blood-soaked adaptation of The Shining.
The van's thermometer is reading 31C at 6pm and things get worse when it transpires that the lockable cupboard for the gas canister is empty.
It transpires that Georges bears responsibility for how this man's life has turned out, and his guilt points to the more widespread malaise in French society concerning the Algerian war.
It transpires permeation for simpler non-polar gases (H2, N2) is diffusion controlled, but strong molecular specific gas-ILs interactions led to a different permeation and selectivity performance for C2H6 and CO2.
After her death it transpires that she had "a passion for secrecy" but nothing to hide; she was, Wilde concludes, "a sphinx without a secret".
