I live in a very quiet town and you can tell the local newspaper struggles to fill its pages. I love the fact that the "News In Brief" section invariably includes a two-sentence story which is just a local pensioner saying what he's seen in his garden. (This week: a red admiral butterfly.) Last week ...

One of my neighbour's rabbits is missing. Maybe it's been raptured. Or maybe it's just run off and will turn up in someone else's garden like last time. WE JUST DON'T KNOW.

AV seems to me to be a variant of how the X Factor voting works.

Week 1: 5 contestants, 1 eliminated

Week 2: 4 contestants, people who voted for last week's eliminated contestant vote for somebody else

and so on until you're down to one. In AV it continues until somebody has over 50% of the ...

Martin Jarvis. Incredibly creepy. How was he ever allowed to appear on children's TV?

Something's just struck me about this "eleventh hour" business. If it was 11am French time, doesn't that make it 10am GMT? Or was Paris on GMT in 1918?

EDIT: Hmmm. Apparently it was on GMT. France didn't go to Central European Time until it was imposed on them by the Germans in WW2, and they never ...

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Bloody Americans.

It's always been the preferred spelling in the OED. It's only very recently that the -ise variant has been included in the Concise Oxford, and the online edition of the full OED (which is based on the 1989 second edition, though it gets regular updates) only lists ...

Lovely to see a senile old reactionary shoot himself in the foot.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11332515

What a twat he is.

For people who REALLY get on my nerves, oh yes.

Nick Harvey wrote:Why do I feel like I ought to be saying 'Mornington Crescent'?

Mornington Crescent -> Pour l'Amour des Chiens -> Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band -> Adolf Hitler

madmusician wrote:Tom Torlakson -> Vietnam War -> Proxy War -> World War II -> Adolf Hitler

You could have gone straight from Tom Torlakson to World War II and saved yourself two links.

Sarah, Plain and Tall -> Christopher Walken -> Germans -> Adolf Hitler

Nigel Powers -> Belgium -> Blitzkrieg -> Adolf Hitler