Dr Hackenslash

Was the conversation in the corner of the office, or was the conversation about dogging that was happening in the corner of the office?

Baron Eddy Merckx - considered to be one of the best cyclists of all time. He was born on June 17 1945 and made a baron by the King in 1996. The date of his birth makes me suspect his father was either British, Canadian or American, however. What women in oppressed nations will do for silk-stockings when there's war on, hey!

...of excessive masturbation? Well, he must have won those medals for something. "Permission to fetch a tissue, sir?"

The thought of Sir Jim in court sends an almost climatic shiver down my spine, for some reason.

Two? Who's the other one?

What about "Don't like it up 'em-philes"? People who are obsessed with Lance Corporal Jack Jones.

Whether or not it is real, the below link is to a transcript of supposed deleted scenes when Sir Jimmy was on Have I Got News For You. I haven't laughed so much since Aug 31 1997. Have I Got News For You deleted scene transcript

There's only one way to find out: A person who fiddles with monarchs - regiphile A person who fiddles with themself - suiphile A person who fiddles with mothers - matriphile A person who fiddles with spiders - arachnophile A person who fiddles with the southern hemisphere - antipodiphile Now let's see how that goes...

Precisely. But can you imagine Sir Jimmy Saville naked? I wonder what his body is like, probably still pretty fit as he does a lot of marathons - runs, not peanutty chocolate bars.

As in people who are nearly dead, but not so dead that it would be illegal to fiddle with them?

Nothing wrong with that at all - that's in fact my point. It's a bit rum for people to suggest he is a necroph*le, mind. Poor bloke, still uses the bus.

The UK, Nigeria and Bill Gates launch a plan to stop TB, with the Microsoft boss tripling his funding for the campaign. Yes, what a great paragraph!!! It's from the link to the story. Full story here

Acutally, it's Estonia. The .ee gives it away a bit. Dosvidanya, lapshoo na ooshie vershat.

Things to do so while waiting for death? Play with yourself so much you go blind, as it seems Clive Dunn has at the moment...

You don't think this could be the beginning of the end, could it??? Eye trouble is often the first sign...

Ronald Reagan - February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004 (93-years-old) Gerald Ford - Born July 14 1913 (92-years-old) So he needs to survive until about Dec/Jan to break the record (and I'm sure someone here will work out the exact date). Not that I'd class GF as a real president - he wasn't elected as VP, let alone P!!

As are his quotes about Blair's policy on prostitution being misguided... At the end of the day, I've nothing against someone going to a gay prostitute - but if you are doing that, don't invite the tv cameras into your house to show you as an honest, family man. And it's not as if all he did was sleep with the rent-boys... As for Simon Hughes, Westminster has always known, but his by-election in 1983 against Peter Tatchell was outrageous - he portrayed himself as the "Straight Choice"

The Jimmy Saville rumours are far worse than the truth. I know of many people who went to Jimmy Saville's parties in the 1970s and 1980s. At 8pm, he used to send someone round telling the young ladies that if they weren't naked by 9pm they had to leave. Many members of the press were at these parties, but there was nothing too dodgy about them - Sir Jimmy just preferred looking at the naked form.

They would disappear from radar, but radar coverage doesn't cover the entire North Atlantic. There are only a certain number of radar stations around, and then individual boat's own radar. GPS has increased the coverage, but because these create images from data, they are liable to glitches.

Very true, I'd put him in for 2007 myself, though. He's basically decided to play up to the media character that has been created for him, as he was when he was popular. He just doesn't know who he is any more.

Hmm. Surely the North Atlantic Drift / Gulf Stream have more to do with this. If that post was genuine, then the claim is the Bermuda Triangle covers the entire North Atlantic, which would seem a bit odd, to say the least.

Then again, you do hear of stories of people driving down country lanes etc, who seem to travel back in time. For example, they go in a pub that seems to be set in the 1960s and drive off. Then they go back to the village a week later and it's completely different. There have been reported cases of this. Remember, time is merely a measure of distance between events, as opposed to locations.

The problem with the "Bermuda Triangle being a rift in normal space-time" theory is that current understanding of such singularities would suggest they can only occur in deep space, ie not near other mass-gravitational bodies. Then again, if the BT does exist, then current laws of physics would be thrown out the window anyway.

And so are everybodys common day folk. Maybe, but they don't get their second home paid for by the tax payer, like MP's do. What about the benefits brigade who get their rent paid for them?

Playing with extra-dimentional vortexes... Surely there is a more straightforward explanation to the Bermuda Triangle. I've heard the layout of landmasses and weather effects make everything look the same, so it's easy to get lost. But I'm just a doctor...