Some time ago, I was chatting to a Japanese lawyer i know, who had a big case for American clients. They wanted to attend the hearing of the case on Tokyo, but when he told them it was on Christmas Day, they changed their minds!
Close to Spike Milligan, "I told you I was ill."
I gather W C Fields did not have a tombstone, thus the frequent suggestion that it said, "on the whole I'd rather be here than in Philadelphia", is apocryphal. Shame!
I took off from Suvarnabhumi on Monday, and after about 5 mins, all you could see was flooding everywhere, it went on for many miles, roads disappeared, isolated patches of high ground. Odd houses, otherwise just water.