Where do you find all these people?!

"A husband is like a fire, he goes out when unattended." - Evan Esar

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"SIR – ... I have lived for all but 12 of my 58 years in the United States and somehow have never encountered any of the startling characters you manage to turn up to put front and centre in your articles about life here. Where do you find these people? Do you advertise for them in local newspapers? “Wanted: Very irritated voter, preferably reactionary, uses colourful language.” As for the BBC’s coverage, you’d think the whole of America was populated with Elvis impersonators from Las Vegas.

Maggie McGirr
Greenwich, Connecticut"