Gallery of worthies:
I sometimes attend the quiz-night at my in-laws' bowls club. This takes place in a small village hall of the type you might expect to see in an episode of "Dad's Army". On the walls are arranged rows of framed sepia portraits of past chairmen and noteworthy members, all displaying a solemn and quiet dignity befitting their status.
And when looking at them I have sometimes wondered, though it hardly seems possible, "might any of you once have entertained your own families with just such an animated and combustible party-trick?"
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