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 [[File:JC tombstone.jpg|thumb|4050|center|I told you I was ill]]
-}}A fitting epitaph, literally and figuratively, for the JC as and when he shuffles off this mortal coil.  Should anyone are enough to have a whip around for a headstone, I’d be good with that.
+}}I’d like to think a fitting epitaph, literally and figuratively, for the [[JC]] as and when he finally shuffles off this mortal coil. Should anyone care enough to have a whip-round for a [[tombstone]], I’d be good with that.
-In the service of statutory and contractual interpretation, it is an entreaty [[Non mentula esse|not to be a penis]] — something which many commercial lawyers find it tremendously hard, in their heart of hearts, to avoid.
+In the service of statutory and contractual interpretation, the directive that one should afford a [[fair, large and liberal]] interpretation of a gobbet of text — especially an elegantly-rendered one — it is an entreaty [[Non mentula esse|not to be a penis]] — to not go out of your way to imagine phantoms emerging from its glyphs and serifs; not to freight it with absurd, paranoid, counter-intuitive and essential point-defeating meanins —something which many commercial lawyers find it tremendously hard, in their heart of hearts, to avoid.