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“This is rather shallow,” said a female colleague, “but at my aunt’s funeral last year the undertaker was drop-dead gorgeous. It was very distracting. It’s not often you see a man who is truly handsome, but he was the business.” “It’s almost worth having a relative die,” I suggested. “Almost,” she said.

Is this the basis for an existing dark and/or romantic comedy? If not, why not?

Hear hear

The minister sums up at the end of a fairly short debate about waste reduction (which has nonetheless featured a rambling 20-minute epic from the Lib Dem Baroness Sharp):

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: It is difficult to underestimate the importance of what we are discussing today.

This may not have been quite what he meant, and the text will be subtly altered accordingly.