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Hmm, I've worked out how you do it. I'm guessing if I'd posted this pic of Mr Plant's house you would have been defeated

You are a bad boy Ashi. Very very bad

AJ, if I was a celeb I'd be having seriously disturbed sleep about you You're right. So tell us, do you just "know" where they all live or have you got some devilish technique?

Yikes - should these celebs be a tad worried some of you know so much about where they all live?? Here's one you're not gonna get Clue - it's not in the US

For anyone that likes classifying people as "radiators" or "drains", Wayne's definitely a radiator

You couldn't make this up - turns out we only won thanks to a Chicago cop and two sharp eyed US PGA ... Medinah, Ill. — The Europe team management on Monday was trying to locate “the man who won the Ryder Cup” to make a presentation to him. They were also considering making a similar gesture to “the two women who won the Ryder Cup.” Deputy chief Patrick Rollins is the policeman who rushed Rory McIlroy to the course in time to make his singles match, while Maggie Budzar and Erica Stoll are the PGA of America’s transport officials who first noticed McIlroy was late and tracked him down. Without their help, he would have been disqualified, the U.S. would have won the trophy and the world No. 1 would now be in hiding. Who knows what such levels of ignominy could have done to his career. McIlroy was refusing even to consider that as the bizarre series of events went directly into Ryder Cup folklore. The anatomy of the farce is scarcely believable in high-class sport. McIlroy took full blame. “I read my tee time on the Golf Channel and they were displaying them in Eastern Time, an hour ahead of Central Time,” he said. “I thought I was off at 12:25 p.m., not 11:25 a.m. I definitely wouldn’t have made it there in time if it wasn’t for the police car. I don’t even want to think what would have happened if I hadn’t. I would have been slaughtered.” Contrary to some reports, McIlroy had not slept in. He awoke at 9 a.m. and phoned his girlfriend, Caroline Wozniacki, who is playing a tennis event in Beijing. Downstairs, the lobby of the Westin Lombard was buzzing with fans taking pictures of players as they got in their courtesy cars to make the 30-minute journey to Medinah. Budzar was there organizing the travel for the players ticking them off as they went. At the course, Stoll was checking them in as they arrived. Suddenly they noticed a white space where a notable squiggle should have been. “I knew J.P. [Fitzgerald, McIlroy’s caddie] had left about an hour earlier and I knew his tee time was 11:25,” Budzar said. “I knew everyone who was walking out of the hotel and we still hadn’t seen Rory. There was a huge crowd here so everyone knew he hadn’t come down. The crowd were getting antsy, asking where he was. I just lied and said he had already left.” At the course, officials started to fret about McIlroy’s absence. Jamie Spence, the former European Tour professional who was acting as Europe’s team manager, asked Fitzgerald about his player. The Irishman told Spence not to be concerned as McIlroy often left it late. When he won the U.S. PGA Championship seven weeks ago, he arrived only 30 minutes before the final round. Fortunately, two young ladies were not as trusting as Fitzgerald. “I started getting worried that something had happened to him,” Budzar said. “There was only one room still in use when housekeeping checked and a male voice said not to come in. We figured it had to be him because by now we knew he wasn’t at the course. We had someone go to his room, and there he was.” It was now 11am and McIlroy had 25 minutes to make his tee-time, otherwise the point would go to Keegan Bradley and America. “At first I was going to drive him to the course because I knew the way and we didn’t want to put a volunteer under stress in the courtesy car,” Budzar said. “I asked a policeman parked out at the front if he could take him. I gave Rory the choice and he jumped straight in the front seat. He was on the phone saying to someone he thought his tee time was 12:25 p.m. There was a sense of panic.” By now the media had wind of the story and cameras waited in the car park. At 11:14 a.m., the police car whizzed in and McIlroy jumped out. He put on his shoes and raced to the putting green where he hugged his captain, Jose Maria Olazabal, and walked directly to the first tee and proceeded to beat Bradley 2&1. “I had to win as everyone would have blamed my lack of preparation otherwise,” McIlroy said. “I don’t need much practice time to get loose. The policeman put his lights on and got me past all the traffic. If we hadn’t had them on, it would have taken at least another 10 minutes from the highway junction where the traffic was backed up. I’ve never been so scared whole life.” No wonder Olazabal organized flags to be signed by the team to hand over to Rollins. Budzar and Stoll will also be rewarded. And there was golf thinking the Americans did not win the Ryder Cup. These three did, for Europe. So next time Rory wear a wrist watch! http://www.vancouver...6877/story.html

Um, just exactly what kind of "actors" are we talking about here

There's loads on eBay e.g. http://www.ebay.com/...r-/330794579245 Yikes, now you've got my inner geek all excited about retro kit ...

Maybe George was ill / infirm and it was a kindness to have him euthanased? Maybe if you feel conflicted you could tell your cross door neighbour it's wrong to ask you not to tell your mum and dad the truth? It's very upsetting when you lose a loved companion. I've had three pets euthanased since childhood - all dogs - to stop their suffering due to infirmity. I held and comforted them and then buried them in the garden. I don't think I could go through that again. So I know how you're feeling *hugs*

It's also a significant anniversary for these - 50 years since they were invented by Dutch company Philips in 1962 and you can still buy 'em. Personally I like owning the physical recording. It's nice to handle something, you get the design cover and the leaflet / booklet often tells you interesting and useful stuff about the artists and recordings and you own it for ever, which you don't with the likes of iTunes - when formats change you'll have to buy it all over again [bruce Willis is threatening legal action against Apple cuz of this] and Spotify isn't a total solution cuz you won't get a broadband connection when you're treking to Everest Base Camp

Ryder Cup 2012 Bad luck USA. Never mind, maybe next time in 2014

Nicely handled Andy Would be a bonus if you could just "happen" to be in the vicinity to witness your manager's nice tan turning a deathly white when she breezes back and gets her P45

I can't repeat what he said here but the first word started with an "f" and ended in a "g", the next word was the opposite of white, and the next word began with a "c" and had four letters. A bit ,more than an "epithet"

True, Andy. But it's the shame. Can't put a price on that.

"Chelsea captain [and former England captain] John Terry has been banned for four matches and fined £220,000 for racially abusing QPR defender Anton Ferdinand." http://www.bbc.co.uk...otball/19723020 Good. This follows other moves to stamp out homophobia in football and other sports http://www.gaystarne...nti-gay-charter

Zombees! - the apocalypse has started!!! zombie bees were the first to be confirmed in Washington state, the Seattle Times reported. San Francisco State University biologist John Hafernik first discovered zombie bees in California in 2008. Hafernik now uses a website to recruit citizen scientists like Hohn to track the infection across the country. Observers also have found zombie bees in Oregon and South Dakota. Aaaahahahah - this is just the beginning! http://www.weather.c...ington-20120925

You mean like this?

Fair enough

I'm sure they made a lovely couple

You must live a very sad and distrustful life if your reaction to everthing you don't have personal experience of is that it's "bull****" Presumably you wouldn't believe elephants have trunks unless you'd seen one with your own eyes Fyi [and presumably Googling it yourself was just too much hard work - much easier to tap out "bull"] here are some sources http://www.niaaa.nih...ollege-drinking http://www.collegedr...ntbrochure.aspx http://www.collegedr...kForce_TOC.aspx http://www.collegedr...0.aspx#hing2005 Maybe you need to be reminded now and again that you live in a society. Your breathtakingly cynical response "That's Darwin sorting out the heard" so why should I care?, apart from being callous, ignores the deaths and injuries caused to all the others by those drink drivers: passengers, pedestrians, and other road users. Never mind their distraught families and friends. "Beyond the personal cost to the individual, society as a whole also pays. Half of all persons who die in traffic crashes involving drinking drivers under the age of 21 are people other than the drinking driver (NHTSA, 2003). The social costs of underage drinking are estimated conservatively at $53 billion, including $19 billion from traffic crashes and $29 billion from violent crime (Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, 1999)." [source US Dept of Health and Human Services "A Comprehensive Plan for Preventing and Reducing Underage Drinking " report 2006] So you see you should care. Because you could be the one injured or killed by a drunk driver. Or someone you love. And even if you still have no compassion, these deaths are costing you money - because you have paid for the education of these students through your taxes and all that money's been wasted because these people have died before they've been able to pay back those costs through their taxes.

And here he is!

Hmm, alcohol suppositories. Neat way to get around the breathalyser

So many! Not got the brains of a caravan site = won't be winning Mastermind anytime soon Mad as a box of frogs = self explanatory Face like a bag of spanners = won't be winning any beauty contest Like a rat up a drainpipe = it moved fast Gone to the dogs = got into a bad state [from dog race betting?] Face the music = accept bad things coming your way Pig in a poke = a bad deal Yank his chain = provoke You can whistle for it = you won't get it Wrong end of the stick = misunderstanding [from Roman toilet wipes?] Chew the fat = gossip Mutton dressed as lamb = oldies trying to look young Go bile yer heed [go boil your head] = go away [heheh maybe something a bit stronger than this] Never had an accident, but seen plenty in her rear view mirror = the kind of driver you'd rather take public transport than ride with A real toilet blocker = visitors unlikely to be invited back

Happy birthday big guy Sending you this NY fireman to help blow ... *mops brow* ... blow out the candles