Two days ago, at work, I was relating to my team leader a tale of mild annoyance involving the company sysadmins. I began the story with the words ‘Last Thursday, …’.

It then became rather difficult to concentrate on what I was supposed to be telling him, because some part of my brain started singing ‘Last Thursday, I gave you my heart’. I struggled through my story in spite of this mental cacophony, but within the next few minutes the same part of my brain had managed to prefix ‘Last Thursday’ to several well known phrases or sayings:

• Last Thursday, I gave you my heart
• Last Thursday, our forefathers brought forth on this continent a new nation
• Last Thursday in a galaxy far, far away…
• Last Thursday God created the heaven and the earth.

I'm sure there must be some even better ones of these which I haven't thought of yet.