-the inner workings of a complex and intricate organisation-

So here's a taste of the emails I send out to our LSESS committee. This one was entitled Pompous Persiflage.

A study of 12 subjects, the results of which are printed in ST102 Exercise Question 4, provides some evidence that dieting reduces mental effectiveness. Finally, it has come to light that the protein diet, its Cambridge counterpart and all those other slavedriving rituals some of us so religiously adhere to could in no small part engender pernicious cranial atrophy and ultimate effeteness.

Herein lies that added incentive you were so desperately searching all these years for to break your resolve and weaken your conviction that eating little can actually make you more attractive (unless, of course, the reason you eat so little is because you're a stingy dump. Hmm... who does that sound like, I wonder). Snap outta that reverie. And those of you who hitherto harboured a tepid interest in following in the shining example of skeletal Calista Flockhart, consider yourself dissuaded. She looks like a shrunken monkey, those types you find in the deep, dank recesses of dubious laboratories, together with victims of Agent Orange.

Consider this polemic a direct affront to the asinine doctrines of dear ol' Dr Robert Atkins. Opt for a less insalubrious predilection. You have been warned.

JB