Having just tracked back to the ‘Jackie Big Tits’ story (I’m not doing a link again, no fear!), John Burnie has emailed me with this little gem of a tale.

‘This sort of disgusting behaviour has happened before!

‘I told a joke to the late Olympic Sailor Glyn Charles as he was trying to qualify for the Olympics in his Soling. It went like this:

‘A young French ambassador’s wife, new in London, was entertaining guests for dinner. The guests decided to leave early and the young hostess rather naively said: “Ah, you Eenglish are all ze same: Early to bed and up wiz ze cock”.

‘Glyn liked that sort of thing so immediately named his new Petticrow hullEarly to Bed and Up wiz ze Cock. He wrote the name on the hull in felt tip marker.

‘It too was disallowed – too long apparently.’