A friend of mine just called up saying he'd spent 30 minutes pitching a website to some part of the London Authority and had done the whole thing with a cigarette stuck rakishly behind his ears....apparently he'd gone out for a smoke before it started but got called in before he'd lit it.

His parents are Italian so he's fairly swarthy looking at the best of times. And with cigarette-behind-ear has traditionally been Hollywood shorthand for huckster-ism on a par with twirling a toothpick in your mouth while shuffling cards, it's possible his stupidity might cost his company tens of thousands of pounds for the job. It might even have been all right if it was the slightly more respectable conventional type - but it was a raggedy-ass roll-your-own...BRILLIANT