By Belinda Hadden
Precise tales, many by means of celebrities, of many of the creative and funny methods humans have discovered to take revenge.
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The editor asked. The major exec thought this a wonderful idea and urged junior on. Which copy of the tape do you think the board received in their mail the following day? In Weston-Super-Mare a small but successful confectionery factory produced lettered rock which is familiar at all British seaside resorts. This particular factory, Farmiloe's, owned and run by Mrs Farmiloe herself many years ago, employed an unpopular foreman whose job it was to oversee the time-honoured procedure of putting the coloured rods around the outside of the huge fat, round block of rock and inserting the letter rods in the middle before they were stretched into the long, thin sticks that we know and love.
He had tried many times to give up the habit but the will was always too weak - another Achilles' heel for Daisy to stick a barb into. " And he stubbed out the newly lighted cigarette on the floor. 'Daisy gave him a very warm welcoming kiss and just as he was about to tell her of his new resolution she presented him with a carton of cigarettes. Never before had she given him a light, let alone a cigarette - and she was uncommonly nice. The details of her trip, however, were vague. From such a precise woman this was disturbing.
The first Bob knew of it was when a group of paparazzi arrived outside his darkroom. ' Bad enough if it is true but far worse if it is nothing but a joke gone wrong. The News of The World wanted to run the story and it took the combined efforts of Piers, Bob and a barrage of solicitors and injunctions to prove it was nothing but a hoax. - with thanks to Piers Adam and Bob Carlos Clarke for letting us use the story. Oh, how she wanted to get her revenge on her husband but they were both caught out hook, line and sinker.