It is with astoundingly great humility I accept this Award, a tribute to my thesis on "Peripatism, the Curse of the Walking Class" at the University of Occasional Bewilderment.

I shall dust a section of the mantle-piece.

I have just found a card. It is for the 2009 "Stayer of the Year".

Come on down TeddyBear!

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Calm, quiet, smooth, devastating