"By the autumn of the Year of Our Lord, 1495, the Black Plague once again howled westwards across Europe from the Indies, carried by seamen and entering England by the South West Passage. Each day, thousands died. Village after village disappeared in its evil wake, and not even the best and noblest escaped its horror."
Can't stand it myself either Stevo, but no subject is beyond the punning treatment. They'll be no rigging of this thread from me, until someone presents a new tack...