Legend has it that Doug Feith was once a rodent that accidentally got trapped under a wall-to-wall carpet laid in Dick Cheney's bunker.
Thinking it was a pack of cigarettes he had mislaid, the carpetlayer, not
wanting to rip up the carpet, smashed the lump flat with a hammer.
Just then, Lynne's voice was heard upstairs:
"Dick, where's my gerbil?"