Well, the sole purpose of saying that was to embarrass me".
A Tory MP has revealed she delivered a speech on poultry welfare to Parliament for the sole purpose of saying "c**k" several times after her Royal Navy colleagues presented her with a puerile forfeit for a "misdemeanour" during training.
"The sole purpose of saying this is specifically what this particular local piece of land needs, this is what it needs to achieve its highest level of productivity without degrading the environment or overusing resources," Luckey says.
It is probably always this way at reunions, especially ones convened for the purpose of saying farewell, but there must be an added layer of wistfulness that comes from having been for so long part of the zeitgeist, creators of culture, and to have seen that time come to a close.
And he will do this in the strong intellectual conviction that there is intrinsic value in abhorrent, appalling jokes, if they make people think, and that, as long as you have rigorously analysed the purpose of saying something, there is nothing that cannot be said.
"This topic of productivity induces the worst kind of procrastination, because it feels like you're doing work, but I was producing stuff that had the express purpose of saying to people, 'Look, come and see how to do your work, rather than doing your work!'" The book missed its publication date.
