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Half way through Torchwood's Children of Earth. This is really good. I don't think you need to watch the preceding two series if you want to jump right to this. And...The Twin Dilemma. Colin Baker's debut, DW has never shied away from the big issues of the day. In this case, the catastrophe facing youngsters in the 80s subjected to bowl cuts. I actually think Colin Baker was alright. When hamming it up and over-acting, he was very engaging. Quite why they went down another "regeneration gone awry" story I don't understand. They dragged that out with Davison.

Got an email this morning about this. The building manager asking what should be done with all the stuff, including the books and the junk. My response was not far off your suggestion here.

I thought a snail would become faster if I removed it's shell but it just became more sluggish.

If they cut out the last 2 minutes, in modern day New York, it would be 100 times better. Worst ending has to go to Star Trek Enterprise

9 for Monday.

On take-off paper?

Even cases like this won't change my mind about the death penalty. It is wrong. Here, I take my cue from my auntie. When my cousin - her daughter - was murdered, she wanted nothing more than the guy who killed her to be jailed for life. Sadly he's out now. But she never even so much as hinted that she wanted him executed.

I've just reversed the car up the driveway and clipped my dad's wing mirror. I thought "f**k, oh well he won't know it was me". As soon as I walk in my dad says "shame about that parkinson" Shit

My memory of 2008 is different to this. What I remember of that season was Hamilton receiving a lot of penalties, some of them very dubious (eg at Belgium). What did Massa in that season was 2 things. Ferrari had all sorts of reliability issues. And Singapore - he should have won that but the race-fixing crash brought him into the pits and the hose didn't detach from his car. If he's suing anyone it should be Ferrari, Flavio Briatore and Nelson Piquet Jr.

7 for Friday

A lot of folk don't know where this quote comes from. James T. Kirk, at the end of The Wrath of Khan.

Former Falkirk goalkeeper Tim Krul* has joined Luton. *He may have been at other, less important teams in between

When they replaced him on the Sun Life ads with that old couple with the vegetable fetish, I assumed he died. "Remember those Sun Life ads?" "Ah yes, the ones with Parky" They said that in the ad. Now we know that, sitting at home, watching these during the day, he was probably seething that they were using his nickname and he wasn't getting a penny.

OK. Beware that this link is to the Heil.

Boss claims he fires any employee on his team who doesn't have a six-pack: 'I have high standards, quit settling'

Just had a visit from the building manager, looking for advice. She took me to the office of a Prof, just along the corridor from me. He retired, cleaned out his office and handed in his keys. Except...his "cleaned out" office is packed with stuff. A whole wall covered in books (academic, fiction and golf-based). Boxes and boxes of just utter tat. Broken clock, dead plants, box files, etc. His desk drawers are all broken, too. It's almost exactly like when he was here, with just a couple of wee things removed. I suggested she reach out to him to see if he wants any of his books and so on back. Failing that, time to hire a skip.

Another one I thought had died years ago.

From Brad McKay's Wikipedia page Given how short his page is (just a single line saying he joined us) the percentage of his profile given over to mistakes and general pishness is very high.

Jeez, Gordon. How long have you been on holiday for?

First...is in there are more than one? Get Status Quo on the phone. They need to know.

Henry Hill's parents said the same thing in Goodfellas. You got a kid working at the local taxi stand?

20-odd years on and it's still a wonderful strike. A few days later my dad told me this joke: Why is Ronaldinho the best lover in the world? Because he can lob Seaman from 30 yards.

I hate to disagree, but...

I think I told this one before, but during the 2002 world cup I was at a conference in England. Fairly small thing held at Keele Uni. Anyway, England were due to play Brazil at something like 9 in the morning. The day before, the professor who was due to give a talk then told the committee he wouldn't do it as he planned to watch the game. After a bit of discussion, it was agreed that the lecture theatre would show the game, then right after it he would give his lecture. So we all piled in first thing in the morning, hungover as usual, to watch it. Luckily I had a yellow shirt. I was sat with the Scottish contingent. It was so good when Ronaldinho scored that goal, and this hush descended over the place. All the talk was "whoever wins this match wins the world cup" and they just got utterly done. Delicious. Brings a smile to my face even now.