*Bob*

When was it a village again? I can't remember whether it was around 1100 or a little later.

tallulah71 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > another friend said "if he wants your company, > he'll pay for it". Has your other friend mistaken you for a prostitute?

Ohhhhhhh the Dulwich we fell in love with.. Which one is that? The one with the boarded-up windows and an occasional crack den or the one with the burgeoning restaurants and secretly-pleasing rocketing house prices? Poor old ED.. resting in a state of idyllic stasis for 20 years - and then the Adventure bar arrives.

Well you're talking facts now, instead of 'morals', so we're on the same page. Countries like (especially) Britain are not in the habit of going to war over 'morals'. That's how we cacked on the rest of the world so successfully and got our empire in the first place.

A network of historical obligation, alliance and allegiance led to the Polish ultimatum - whether there was a formal treaty of not is neither here nor there - it amounts to the same thing.

Britain went to war the Germany because we were unfortunate enough to have a historical alliance with Poland. Morals, doing the right thing (in any sense you imply), 'fighting evil' etc had absolutely nothing to do with it. There were plenty of finest hours, but you can't backdate to wherever you please.

If by 'bury' you mean 'crap wherever they please before half-heartedly scuffing three crumbs of soil over the top then and sauntering off to be made a fuss of somewhere'.. then yes - they bury it.

Like most cats, our cat prepares the way by digging an 8cm trench, with slightly sloping sides. Then, after she has carefully curled one down dead-centre, she fills-in the trench before topping with a layer of thin gravel and - finally - a piece of moss to complete the aesthetic camouflage.

It's only 'one up' from Pomagne really.

Someone once told me that a particular beauty product contained semen from seals. What a job, eh? Still.. lucky little fellas..

Who comes-out worst in the Iggy/Insurance Vs Lydon/Butter corporate cocksucking shootout? I'm going to go with Iggy.. he has further to fall.

Sounds relevant, vivienne. And certainly worth the trip from Lincolnshire.

Early days, but this one shows promise

An ex of mine, a furriner who spoke a number of languages, always maintained that swearing 'in foreign' (including her native Italian) was rubbish - and that the only proper language to swear in was English. Something she took to with a venom - after I suggested we split-up and sell the flat.

What was yours, Narnia? 'Peachy-keen'?

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > - 'Sick'. As in, "yeah I went to the festival > last week, man it was sick". (which means it was > great). I don't think yourself should be including things which might indeed be ridiculous but only serve to replace equally ridiculous things you said when you were 'of an age'.

'For yourself', instead, of 'you' As in "Right then, sir, what I can do for yourself today is.."

I'm sure it still gets an outing on wistful chillout compilation CDs - given away free with The Mail. Along with that other one. The one with the monks and stuff.

Pan pipes.. you don't hear enough of them these days. Listening back, the music sounds exactly like what you used to hear when you pressed the 'demo' button on a fancy-pants music keyboard and it tried to impress you by using as many of its super-realistic sounds as possible.

Clinically obese? Anorexic? If you can answer YES to either of the above - and especially if you cry easily when forced to stand naked in brightly-lit room with a camera zooming-in on your freaky body - then drop us a line at [email protected]

'Poggling' As in 'please stop poggling my glibbets'

first mate Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I have a question- why can't women write good > lyrics? Or can they? If they can why no mention of > any here? > > Answers? Theories? No reason to expect the world of songwriting to be any different to any other kind of workplace. That said, I'd guess that a majority of people prefer male 'voices' (ie both the words and the actual voices) in songs to female. They just do. Women are drawn to men for obvious reasons. And a lot of men just feel more comfortable with men singing.. perversely, even if they're singing (as they often are) about crying, love and other hurty stuff, There's an A-level essay in there somewhere for someone.

An apt description. Alas, I can't take the credit for the music on this occasion. That honour goes to top-prize-in-theme-music-raffle-winner - Weakest Link composer - Paul. And here's a snap of him relaxing at home. Seems money can't buy you everything after all.

Is this a joke? I don't know. How does Sandi Toksvig get work?

Speaking of absolute stinkers, the current cup-holder will be on again on BBC2 at 8.30 tonight. Antiques Master, presented by Sandi Toksvig. Seeing is believing.