John,
A plague upon your inconveniently detailed knowledge of things Scottish!
The piece has not yet been sent in to Lucy, so the problem may yet be solvable. But, a pox on't!
I wonder if Bazza knows that eight limericks appear under his name in the same Penguin volume as Brian. Plus, Bill Greenwell has almost more than I can count. (Have scoured its pages for even one Whitworth - but to no avail. Sorry.)
The book was compiled by the one and only E O Parrott. In all there are eight hundred limericks-- some from the most unexpected people including Bertrand Russell, C E M Joad, Francis Parkinson Keyes, Bernard Levin, Galsworthy, Terence Rattigan ...... and a Cosmo Monkhouse (who he?)
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