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This one's supposed to be true.

Hard drugging musician Phil Lynnott went to television presenter Leslie Crowther to ask for permission to marry his daughter.

"Mr Crowther I wonder could I ask you for the hand of your daughter in marriage," said Phil Lynnott in his thick tongued Dublin mumble.

"You might as well take her hand," replied Leslie Crowther bitterly, "you've already taken everything else."