Monoclinic

Don't you mean the Hokey Cokey? What came first the Pokey or the Cokey? EDIT: - Still, even if was called Hokey Pokey first and is still called that in the US and Oz, there's no mention of Degen in there. For the moment. EDIT 2: Sorry yes there was, CTRL F didn't work as they'd spelt it Degan.

This is not a suggestion for the list but for the site. Some people seem to get unneedlessly asperger arsey if a death isn't posted in the alloted thread but in the dead 2009 thread right? Life is sometimes too short for searching, especially with that 20 second rule when you sub-search within a thread right? Well, what say someone (who can) create a pinned thread in 2010 which ONLY the name of the person that had died is posted (mods to delete all other crap and no nicknames so it is search function compatible, maybe linked to the relevant entry in the animal antics thread or whatever), hence all one has to do is go to that thread (which would be on top) and look at the latest entries. Then you'd know directly whether your guy's already been buried somewhere in the forum. Minimalist and sleek such that the simplest of simpletons could understand and grown adults won't get their knickers in a twist crying but I reported it first Sir, look!

Pick your lottery numbers.

A little snippet here says Johnny Hallyday was also treated for colon cancer earlier this year. Oops sorry, I forgot to mention I saw that magazine (well the advert outside the newsagents) a few months ago. I tend to forget people are interested in death and health scares as well as squids, Portsmouth, grammar and bricks. http://www.parismatch.com/People-Match/Mus...-cancer-131217/ There is also a Le Monde version but it is also in French and to read all you need to subscribe at a price which I guess is what we can expect for the English language press soon.

So Malay is very similar to Arabic, interesting. I like a little factoid now and again. Some Singaporean students visited us and gave a presentation (very small world as one of their lecturers was in fact someone who worked on the same floor as me a "few universities" ago) about their University. I remember them saying the offical languages of Singapore were English, Malay, "any one" Chinese and also an Indian language, I forget which but it surprised me for a very small island to have such an array. I didn't think twice about the characters underneath until you mentioned it and to the (my) untrained eye SE Asian languages all seem a little squiggilish.

Prehaps even: BANG! regards, Hein (niet bang) Perhaps even: BANG!

Good news for Ariel Sharon, bad news for desperate deathlisters: Belgian in a coma... it's not serious.

Legal disclaimer: Nothing came up on the search for McPhail. Anyway, he is undergoing treatment for cancer but nothing to get your knickers in a twist about for those so inclined.

Just because a government choses to provide a free healthcare system does not make it a nanny state. People are free to choose whether to "take care of themselves" by having check-ups or following up any health worries (viz. Jade Goody). Is giving the responsibility of our health to a big corporate firm any better in this day and age? Should fat cat executives profit from cancer? Should a couple pay just to give birth, part of the natural cycle of life? (In fact do you have to pay for this or indeed for any emergency treatment that saves your life as a result of an accident/attack that was not your fault?)

Very nearly an armful? You could have always become a member of The Young Conservatives instead.

IMHO: I don't think that the NHS is bad. It might not be the best social healthcare system but now I realise that some of these European systems actually require an additional payment and additional taxes whereas the NHS is completely free and the tax level lower. Also I think it is indicative of our greedy consumer society in that we always want more. We see another country's system being placed higher or offering a better service but yet are unaware of these hidden charges or factor in the level of taxation and social security one would have to pay in that country. We are a bunch of negative whinging poms as honez might say albeit with a nice Welsh lilt. People should be more grateful that they weren't born in Zimbabwe, Myanmar or Kyrgyzstan.

BBC News reminded the world that kidnapping is an industry out there and the summary execution of these two might be bad - in the long term - for business. I couldn't quite get my head round the logic, since it's surely the belief that death is probable that prompts the payments. But who am I to argue with the Beeb? Perhaps they mean that if the international community stand firm and hit the ignore button, which ultimately means the sacrifice of a few hostages, the Somali piracy industry will suffer. They won't get the money so they can't pay off their subprime mortgage, car repayments and credit card bills. I'm pretty sure they'll just go for the try try try again option mind. I hear Abramovitch has a lot of boats

Shouldn't you be out taking advantage of the weather, snorkelling, kayaking or summat? Edit - Sorry, just seen you have a Maryport thread.

Good old CNN Belgian PMs are two a penny. Does this mean that he has to stand down as PM? It took Belgium a long enough time to decide on a PM after the last general election, something like 11 months. Even then that one didn't see out the year owing to fucking up the bank bail out only to be replaced by this Rumpy pumpy one or whatever his name was. Who cares, at least Blair can carry on trying to experience an IED first hand.

You are not going to like this honez but what the world now needs is a G'day Sheila Thatcher to fuck up the Australian coal mining industry offset Australia's unsustainable ways. Correct me if the stats have changed but Australia are the worst offenders for individual CO2 production, and guess what, they love coal too. A cheap local resource it may be but that cheapness comes with a hefty ethical pricetag and undoubtedly more slip slop slapping in the future.

Handballs. Councils who decide it is acceptable to take a cherry picker, raise it up a couple of floors and start drilling 10 cm or so from your window, without warning, at half past midnight. Handballs. Experiments that start out promising then go a bit wrong. Handballs. Correcting someone elses work, again, for little merit. Handballs. Sarkozy giving an interview on TF1 after his cheese eating cheating surrender monkeys win through the va va voom of Thierry main de Dieu Maradona Henry.

Godot, if you are out there I bring to your attention a story from this month's Chemistry World. I hope that squid iridescence might change your viewing angle on the DL, putting a different colour on things. [/day job not given up; coat firmly in hand]

I think some keys are not working on your keyboard, perhaps you should put it in the washing machine to fix it up nicely. I know she had balls but she was no Jamie Lee Curtis; Carole and Mark are potential proof of that. I think several of her allies probably did.

You seem like an intelligent bunch so I thought I'd start a riddle thread. Remember if you google it is only yourself that you are cheating! Here are a couple to get you started. Riddle 1 You are outside a room in which there is a traditional light bulb. You can see three switches, of which only one turns the light on. You can flick the switches on however many times you like but you can only open the door once. Once you open the door you cannot sod about with the switches. How can you determine which switch controls the light? Riddle 2 You are given eleven identical coins of equal mass and one counterfeit coin which is either heavier or lighter than the other eleven. Your are also given a counter balance which you can use just three times to determine the counterfeit. How? Edited for LFN and LB

I think you would have generated far more excitement if you had said "herself" instead of "it". Im sure there would have been a fair few on here who would have been dribbling at the very prospect. Its best not to get their hopes up. PS: Will you be catching a plane? Are we allowed another guess? You are going to or playing at his funeral and therefore cannot buy another ******* as you are no longer going to be able to meet up with other DLers.

They may rant, however I can feel smug in the knowledge I choose not to own an Astra or a Corsa.

That son of a bitch Peter was involved, as well as Bruce? Jeez! LO and indeed L. Whatever was I thinking?

In fact you have been embroiled in a scandal ever since bumping into Peter Grobbelaar, Hans Segers and some mysterious Malaysian buisnessman by the name of Heng Suan Lim in some dogy strip club along the Reeperbahn one dark misty evening. You have saved money as you no longer have to pay the deceased to fix the friendly against Chile.

I'm more concerned about the fact the story implies LFN bought a French car. I don't like them, even the modern ones. Driving the length of the Netherlands in a uni Twingo without power steering was the final nail in the coffin. Or more precisely hanging about on a motorway just outside of Antwerpen on the return hammered in that nail.

I'm more into anything modern, if you don't mind me saying. The temptation itself is temporary just as is the adrenalin rush we experience after purchasing these much desired objects which sit and collect the dust after we grow tired of raving about the everlasting joy they bring into our aging lives. I may have succumbed to a spenders impulses once before, many times before to be precise. But we must be great resistors of this temptation and control our desires. The key words I speak of tonight are "Resist" and "Desire". I believe that he who resists unnecessary desire will strengthen the will power or "the consumers immune system" and by suppressing this hunger it will lead to a greater inner peace which speaks volumes. But sometimes we find pleasure in resisting the desire. Should we give in? What if we are persuaded to give in? I like the temptation but I seldom give in. Like a florist in Wooton Bassett, Banshees cream posting utter claptrap; a flourishing industry.