Congratulations to one and all, particularly Patrick and Dave. You've all made our lives richer.
Nix @ 42 - Care to elaborate the dire things Cromwell did to England - apart from entrench Parliamentary democracy and (reluctantly) agree with the execution of the most arrogant, mendacious monarch ever to be on this throne (and that is saying a lot) The similarities between President Bush and Charles Stuart are alarming. You might care to consider a similar resolution.
I suggest anyone who compares Oliver to Mugabe really has little understanding of either situation.
Working on the principle that every diary is a work of fiction of some sort, how about Samuel Pepys (certainly his books of account are considered works of fiction . . .)
And has anyone, anywhere ever deliberately canned worms?
Distressing to see the shades of Robert Maxwell and James Goldsmith stalking the land again (two British businessmen - well, Maxwell was Hungarian if you want strict accuracy - of dubious business ethics and political views joined at the hip by frightening avarice and arrogance who reached for their learned friends at the first hint of criticism)
Maybe Mr Myers should ask Ian Hislop (editor of Private Eye, an organ sued by both gents on numerous occasions) for advice. In the meantime, is there a defence fund?
Not exactly serious science, but anything by James Churchward on the topic of Mu, that Atlantis-like lost continent but so much cooler when you are 17. Way back then it took me weeks to gather the evidence it was all bunk. Now I expect I'd need about fifteen minutes. That's progress.
#40, Nicole - that's a really statistically significant polling population there - Maudie Littlehampton on vacation.
Of course, we've already had a female Prime Minister and are likely to have another, so we must be doomed.
Ah, but what do I know? I only live here.
(Maudie Littlehampton - a venomous Home Counties lady wot lunches from daily cartoons of yore, whose politics might be defined as regarding Margaret Thatcher as a dangerous liberal and wogs begin at Dover and Watford)
Re 'Dark Star' - just realised, it is a lot older than 25. It was older than 25 when it escaped...
Anyone mentioned O'Bannon's 'Dark Star' yet? Cheap as chips, imaginative - teach the bomb phenomenology indeed! - and, of course, where Mike Myers stole that whole Bohemian Rhapsody routine.
A national medical database. On a computer, a very big computer. Or on lots of small computers all linked up. Data entered by bored, low paid people dreaming of being Justin Timberlake or Jlo or thinking that it must be 5 oclock somewhere.
And you think its going to work?
Some of your UK lurkers might have seen Bonnie Greer discussion the notion - apropos of the constitutional right to bear arms - that Americans believe they have the right - possibly even the obligation - to adjust reality to their personal view.
A concept to make your brain ache and needing a writer even more talented that Ms Greer to fully express (and he left the building last week)
I can't comment as it seems so alien an idea to the Americans I know. What about you guys?
I logged off yesterday to watch the Bahrain Grand Prix. Drivers who are not only better than us, but better than we can imagine being (unless you're a 20 year old male and into wearing your cap backwards) Drivers who drive, routinely, faster than us and faster than we can imagine about an inch from someone else who wants to get past them, no matter what. They all wear 5 point harnesses and crash helmets. Do you think they wouldn't save that weight if they could?
After the car racing I watched some superbike racing. All the above comments about skill and speed apply in spades 'cos they're bike racers and, by definition, crazy. Every rider in leathers and full face helmets.
I spent 5 years living on the Isle of Man where they race bikes on the public roads. Not a one of these dare devils hasn't worn a helmet in longer than anyone can recall.
I'll happily say that any 'evidence' 'proving' that helmets don't improve outcomes is spurious, and Ben Roethlisberger was an idiot before he fell off his Harley.
As for how you drive. I'm a diabetic. The second hypo I suffered - the second, so I didn't yet recognise the symptoms ('cos I'm an idiot, probably) was while I was driving. I was lucky. My daughter recognised what was happening and told me to 'Pull over, Daddy, like NOW!' Needless to say, I keep a close eye on how I'm feeling now.
As I said above, drive safe everybody - you don't know what's going on behind the other driver's eyes.
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