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There’s a comedy sketch I used to have on a cassette. I think it was a promotional tape for PG Tips or something, but it was a collection of sketches by Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.

It featured a character called Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling and in this sketch there was a killer line: “It came to me in the bath. Lots of things come to me in the bath — toads, frogs, poisonous snakes, that sort of thing.”

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