When the Canadian newspaper magnate Roy Thomson (later Lord Thomson) bought his first broadsheet, the Edinburgh-based "The Scotsman" he was taken on a tour of its offices. In a turret room on the top floor of the building he saw an elderly man seated at a high Dickensian-style desk and writing in a thick ledger with a quill pen. Who was he, and what was he doing? the paper's new owner wanted to know.
Oh!, came the explanation, he was a relative of the former owners and had been given a sinecure of itemising every reference to, or sighting of the Loch Ness Monster since written records began.
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