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Vital Stats

• Who or what makes you laugh until it hurts?
  Overhearing conversations on public transport. Recently a man was telling a friend he'd been bitten by a dog on the South Downs which ripped a testicle. He decided against a tetanus jab as he'd heard dog's saliva contains a natural antibiotic.
• What would your superpower be?
  Help everyone cut through the BS to reveal the real magic everywhere.
• What's the nicest thing anyone ever said to you?
  A teacher from a dangerous part of Pakistan had introduced some of my ideas to her students and came to a conference a year later to give me a present, a lucky elephant, from the students who now had so much fun as they learned.
• What's the most embarrassing thing that ever happened to you?
  After purchasing what I thought was sun screen lotion on a field-trip to Spain,via an equally awkward and elaborate mime, I was soon on the beach generously covering my face, shoulders and torso until a passing Spanish speaker saw the bottle and loudly proclaimed it was boot polish cream. The embarrassment lapsed but my red face didn't.
• What's your mantra?
  Listen, listen, listen then talk