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Well I think Italians are hot!

there was The Tracy Awards, but it doesn't seem to have been active since 2012 It had a rather fine logo too Here's a winner from September 2012 http://www.thetracyawards.com/

A perfect marriage between crap product and crap ad - hope they don't breed .

Candy Dulfer is sensational - the alto-sax is sooo sexxyyy. Thanks for sharing - I'd never have seen this otherwise

Wow, that's a great number and really tight playing! I love Dave Brubeck too and I was lucky to see Oscar Peterson from just a few feet away giving a solo performance - technical brilliance. Glad you liked the Pete and Dud sketch Thanks for sharing .

Black American jazz and R&B lyrics can be a little difficult for non-Americans to understand, so here's a clip of the late great Dudley Moore's Masterclass where he explains to Peter Cook exactly what the lyrics to Mamma's Got A Brand New Bag really mean ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDtkmOdYdKY

Yeah, way too many lawyers slithering around - good idea to clamp down on the supply

Your mate could always try Nifty - they're indexed by "gay" "lesbian" "bi" etc. I've no idea what the "L" stuff's like but it might just be your mate's cuppa tea

I love jazz. Big band, jazz piano, 1950s Miles Davis - there are all kinds of jazz. I don't like everything - some leaves me cold - and I can't even define what jazz is. I just know what I love when I hear it. Here's my all-time favourite big band number, Begin The Beguine, composed by one of America's greatest composers, Cole Porter, on an ocean liner in 1935, and played by the greatest American big band leader, Artie Shaw, in his best-selling big band arrangement of 1938 - IMHO the greatest version ever of this piece So what's your favourite jazz number and performance? Share a Youtube link

It's obvious that it was his poor grasp of grammar what did for him "Hire me as a lawyer - not as a escort"

A topless bear? A bare bear?? *covers eyes*

the Perseids - and noctilucent clouds

Quality advice, Kitt

Can only speak for myself. It's not about "the willingness ... to take at face value everything this ex-employee says" but rather recognition of the described behaviours

Welcome to Corporate World ... where sociopaths thrive

NBC's website gave more details last week The British government and European Space Agency (ESA) are providing $100 million in funding, which will be matched by private financing to complete the propulsion system's development and test. The 2020 flight test will follow the completion of a prototype of the space plane engine by 2017, according to the UK government’s minister for universities and science David Willetts. Speaking on Tuesday (July 16) at the UK Space Conference 2013 in Glasgow, Scotland, Willetts said: "£60 million ($90 million) has been committed to begin building the SABRE prototype. We expect to see the completion of the prototype SABRE by 2017 and flight tests around 2020." For this next phase, the £60 million will be paid in two tranches, £35 million in the UK government’s financial year 2014-2015 and then £25 million for 2015-2016. This funding is expected to create about 1,000 engineering and technology jobs and support a further 2,000 jobs in the wider economy, officials said. By 2017, the UK government expects that SABRE's design will be done, ground demonstrations of engine technology carried out; a flight test of the SABRE rocket nozzle achieved; and improvements to the heat exchanger technology and manufacturing capability accomplished. http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space-plane-engine-future-get-flight-test-2020-6C10679981#space-plane-engine-future-get-flight-test-2020-6C10679981 .

*covers ears and hides *

Can you promise me it won't play anything by Oasis?

Thanks for that. In which case it is truly ironic - and this is the correct use of "irony" - that the opposite constitutional positions of England and the US have in fact produced the opposite outcomes in terms of religious influence on current daily life in our respective countries.

Why are gay donors treated differently? As I said earlier blood policies are based on risk data around HIV infection rates. For example according to the US Centers for Disease Control website, US data shows: "Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM)a represent approximately 2% of the US population, yet are the population most severely affected by HIV. In 2010, MSM accounted for 63% of all new HIV infections, and MSM with a history of injection drug use (MSM-IDU) accounted for an additional 3% of new infections. That same year, young MSM (aged 13-24 years) accounted for 72% of new HIV infections among all persons aged 13 to 24, and 30% of new infections among all MSM. At the end of 2010, an estimated 489,121 (56%) persons living with an HIV diagnosis in the United States were MSM or MSM-IDU." http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/risk/gender/msm/facts/index.html

I'm very sorry for your loss, Dark. The companionship of a loved pet is very special, and the loss of that companionship is hard for those who've not experienced it to understand. I hope in time you can find another companion to share your life with

Surely the problem isn't if people start trying to tie the church in with the state again by using the Bible to back up their arguments for how the Constitution should be upheld, but rather it's if any executive or judicial body allows such "arguments" to prevail - isn't that when they should be shot down for breaching your Constitution?

Phew, that was one driving, stabby, rhythmic ride to a teetering-on-the-brink pause just before an orgasmic climax. Might need some practice though to fit it all into 4:35

but when the heat abates ...

"I also believe in ... the separation of church and state" Um isn't that like saying "I believe in having a President"? They're both fundamentals of your Constitution. There is no choice ... they're both non-negotiable