Head Scratching

After years of denial Billy Idle scratched his balding ginger head and, with a expression falling somewhere between horror and tragedy, finally admitted:

"I really don't have any hair left at the back at all, do I?"

Caught on the spot Gobby did her utmost to react positively and assuage his pain but realised, from his expression, she had fallen woefully short of the mark with her observation of:


"Well, there's a bit left - you know, like you sometimes get on a pork scratching."