Guy Browning takes a sideways look at insurance jargon
S is for
Sabotage - Selection of small French starters
Salvage - Face cream
Separation of assets and liabilities - Point when your children finally leave home
Short closing - Embarrassment tall women feel when vertically challenged men dance with them
Single premium - Increased perkiness of women when good looking man is discovered to be single
Smoke damage - Lung cancer
Social security - Women who hunt in packs
Special wording scheme - Simple language used to communicate with IT people
Split annuity - Dividing Christmas between your parents and the in-laws
Spontaneous combustion - What happens to the boss if he doesn't get his chocolate hobnobs
Spread of risk - Making Marmite sandwiches for someone you don't know very well
Sprinkler insurance - Making sure you put the seat up
Stamp duty - Chore of taking the post out every evening
Standard deviation - Men's liking for nurses' uniforms and the like
Stationary condition - Natural state of public transport
Statutory interest policy - Crowding of women around naked statues in museums
Stock declaration policy -Admission that you don't make your own gravy
Subpoena - Pretty little flower
Sunrise cover - Really nasty duvet cover
Supplementary accident -insurance
Cover for mishaps during the treatment of piles
Surplus line -Beer gut seen in profile
