The unimportant news thread

[Lethevich]

I loved that story about the PM. The MP was trying to be super partisan, but ended up sounding like a lunatic The simple way the deputy PM dealt with it was quite elegant (for him).

[Sergeant Rock]

Curiously, I had actually quoted your post and written a reply to it a few days ago, but it didn't seem worth posting (and given what I DO post, it must've been truly crap). Essentially I was going to ask you to decode all the terminology - as I don't understand enough about American sport to see any fun in it

For example, what does "post-season" mean here?

Sorry, Sara. It was late when I posted that. Way past my bedtime. I forgot to include my usual grin at the end. That's now been rectified. I was not being entirely serious...at least I don't think I was! Hard to remember now...I confess to drinking more than my usual quota of wine last evening, and chasing the last bottle with a few drams of Scotch 

Post-season games are those played after the end of a regular season in order to determine a champion. In college football the post-season games are called bowl games. The originals were the Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Orange Bowl and Cotton Bowl and they are still the most prestigious, involving the best college teams. But the concept has proliferated to such a hilarious degree that even the lowly spud has a game named after it now    So while it's nice to have some national recognition for my university, there is something decidedly screwy about a game named The Famous Idaho Potato Bowl played in the middle of nowhere (my apologies to any Boise residents )

Sarge

[Lethevich]

Ah, I see thanks I look forward to a Wisconsin "Dairy Bowl" (it sounds delicious)

[Karl Henning]

If Boise residents don't know that their town is out in the middle of nowhere, they're in serious denial.

[eyeresist]

Curiously, I had actually quoted your post and written a reply to it a few days ago, but it didn't seem worth posting (and given what I DO post, it must've been truly crap).

Was going to reply to this, but didn't have anything worth saying.

[knight66]

I loved that story about the PM. The MP was trying to be super partisan, but ended up sounding like a lunatic The simple way the deputy PM dealt with it was quite elegant (for him).

One aspect of this I did not really grasp, and I heard quite a long interview on radio with the MP, was that he seemed only to worry about the demise of the PM by means of terrorism. It could be a a surfeit of lampreys or falling out of his tree; but the MP only seemed concerned should there be a gap in the fence because it was kicked in.

One thing we do know, no danger of it being Prescott these days.

Mike

[Lethevich]

Based on an article I read a while back, the PM's primary health concern should not be terrorists, but falling masonry next time he visits Buckingham Palace.

[Lethevich]

[Karl Henning]

France asks women to remove breast implants

[Karl Henning]

"As a preventive measure not of an urgent nature. . . ."

[ibanezmonster]

Now school shootings are being caused by videogames that haven't been released yet, it seems.

[Lethevich]

Petition to protest ultra-Orthodox discrimination against 7-year-old Beit Shemesh girl

I don't know what these guys problem with Iran is, they have so much in common.

[Karl Henning]

Talk about yer representative democracy . . . .

The Center for Responsive Politics found that 47 percent of current members of Congress are millionaires.

[Szykneij]

France asks women to remove breast implants

New Orleans justs asks women to display the holders.

[Todd]

Makes sense.  Or does it?

[Szykneij]

Makes sense.  Or does it?

How does one collect the damages if the suit is successful? It's unlikely that an 18-year old had much of an estate and garnishing the wages of a dismembered corpse can't be very productive.

[Todd]

...and garnishing the wages of a dismembered corpse can't be very productive.

You're a 'glass half-empty' kind of person, aren't you?

[vandermolen]

Father in Wales throws out Christmas gifts, including tickets for London Olympics and cash, with wrapping paper which he takes to rubbish dump. Only realises what he has done after dump has closed. Cardiff Police refuse to let him jump over wall to retrieve items. But Cardiff Council arranges for guard to let him in. He emerges triumphant after rummaging in dump for fifteen minutes. Nice photo in paper of his wife and daughter trying to strangle him.

[Karl Henning]

Mercy!

[Lethevich]

Father in Wales throws out Christmas gifts, including tickets for London Olympics and cash, with wrapping paper which he takes to rubbish dump. Only realises what he has done after dump has closed. Cardiff Police refuse to let him jump over wall to retrieve items. But Cardiff Council arranges for guard to let him in. He emerges triumphant after rummaging in dump for fifteen minutes. Nice photo in paper of his wife and daughter trying to strangle him.

I began reading this as though it were a regular and deliberate occurance