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Apr 20 2009 by Peter McCusker, The Journal

The Questionnaire

What car do you drive?

Smart car.

What’s your favourite restaurant?

Brasserie Black Door.

Who or what makes you laugh?

Jackie Mason.

What’s your favourite book?

Candide, by Voltaire.

What’s your favourite film?

Little Big Man.

What was the last album you bought?

Never bought one.

What’s your ideal job, other than your current one?

Archaeologist.

If you had a talking parrot, what’s the first thing you’d teach it to say?

No discounts.

What’s your greatest fear?

Outliving my children.

What’s the best piece of business advice you have ever received?

Little fires keep you warm, big fires burn you.

Worst business advice?

Share tips.

What’s your poison?

A good claret.

What newspaper do you read, other than The Journal?

The Times.

How much was your first pay packet and what was it for?

£17 for a 70-hour week, working for my father.

How do you keep fit?

I play real tennis twice a week.

What’s your most irritating habit?

Not listening to my wife (so I am told).

What’s your biggest extravagance?

The Biscuit Factory.

Which historical or fictional character do you most identify with/admire?

Andrew Carnegie.

And which four famous people would you most like to dine with?

Ernest Shackelton, Adam Smith, Florence Nightingale, Lloyd George

How would you like to be remembered?

Never knowingly not bought a round.