Things I should have posted:

From Holymoly:

It seems Dublin is alive with great shop names. A bloke called Ritchie - owns a carpet shop. He is... LINO RITCHIE!

>After our discovery of the carpet salesmen Lino Ritchie last week, i had the following mail: "As someone who grew up in the town where Lino Ritchie first launched, I'm disappointed you didn't include his slogan: "Our prices will have you dancing on the ceiling".

Meanwhile, from rival gossip sheet Popbitch - who cares if it's true, it's a great story:

>We'd be getting more excited about the election if the leading MPs were more like George Brown, the deputy leader of the Labour Party during the 1960s. A noted drunk, George's finest hour came at a London diplomatic reception. As the band struck up the first number, he approached a potential conquest in a long, red velvet dress
and asked, "Beautiful lady in scarlet, may I have the next dance?"

"Certainly not!" came the reply.

"Why not?" asked George.

"In the first place you are drunk. In the second, this is not actually a waltz but the Hungarian national anthem; and, thirdly, I am not a beautiful lady in scarlet, I am, in fact, the papal nuncio Archbishop Mancini."