http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/alan_brien en http://www.newstatesman.com/200608140059 http://www.newstatesman.com/200608140059 Mon, 14 Aug 2006 12:00:00 GMT Alan Brien Taken from the New Statesman archive, 1 May 1970. How many of these might you hear today? Number 2 and number 12, certainly, and perhaps number 34, which like a few others at least ought to be true. Whatever the reality was in 1970, I wonder how many modern Hull bridegrooms have met their wives at public dances. Alan Brien, critic, columnist and wit, was a regular contributor to the magazine in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Selected by Brian Cathcart

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