Nine tenths of five eighths of not much.

[El Gordo]

I know only one thing of note about Gough Whitlam, which is that Harold Wilson once referred to him as "Whit Goughlam" in an after-dinner speech when he'd probably had one brown ale more than was advisable. It's not really "of note" though, is it? It was reported in Private Eye in about 1973. In the way that these things do, it's one of those tiny fragments of information that just got lodged somewhere in the mush of my brain, patiently waiting 35 years for its glorious reappearance.

I hope it was worth the wait.