Monoclinic

Northumberland you say? Anybody heard from our placid compatriate Star Crossed? We should have had a TSAN update by now. A 48 page letter is a bit in the realms of killer post whore...

EASY, Lung. Would you want someone else's bowels?* Sex on the Beach or a Multiple Screaming Orgasm? * Note to pedants: Allow for artistic licence, I'd hazard a non-medical doctor guess that transplants are not used in the treatment of cancer.

I can save you the bother of those early starts and annoying noises. GERMANY will win. You can relax now. This must be true, I saw it on the Internet here. Nice try, but hopefully FAIL! A similarly shite urban myth was bandied around emails in 1998 about the symmetry of world cup wins and we all know the outcome of that one don't we? 1966 ENGLAND 1970 BRAZIL 1974 WEST GERMANY 1978 ARGENTINA 1982 ITALY 1986 ARGENTINA 1990 WEST GERMANY 1994 BRAZIL 1998 ANGLETERRE A wiseman welshman once said, Allez les Neds.

Well done Paul the Octopus. Spot on again. Grrr.

MESSAGE FROM HMNBAWA: DON'T FORGET YOU HAVE 15 TRANSFERS TO USE BEFORE NEXT SUNDAY

Does that mean we have to be nice to you? Has it ever meant that before? That all depends on how well Six is integrated in the alliance systems. Alliances? I thought it was every man, woman and squid for themselves with some various pedant keeping score.

Due to new government regulations on non skilled workers being allowed into the UK, the English team are now banned from entering the country.

Anyone for cricket?

For those who are into spectator fantasies, I thought I might give you a peek now we've played the 48 group stage matches. 15 more to go at double points, so don't despair honez and Josco my dears there is all to play for yet. I can't quite place my finger on why I have chosen today for the show and tell

Well it's half time and before the update Mr S. Figure is not winning, or is he? Who knows who Shads is? Some say he's the ... [/end Jeremy Clarkson sonic boom] So, "going forward" remember to ditch your cheese eating surrender monkeys and Tony Soprano spaghetti twisters and get in a few cheating Nazi-Argie war criminals in their place. Not sure if transfers are rolled over so better to use them than to lose them. You've around half an hour!

Bits of it make sense, others are tripe! 1. A large escape of methane will cause boats, rigs ect. to sink but I doubt everything in the gulf! 2. Drill rigs can't take 100,000 psi? utter shite! A friend of mine used to work for Harland & Wolf building drill ships for oil, gas and they were tested to 100,000 BAR thats about 14 times the presure, and that was in the early 90s. 3. 400-600 MPH is not supersonic! Is that site classed under "citizen journalism"?

Five words, four mistakes and misspelled your own moniker (or you like standing on doors). A definite, dyed-in-the-wool England fan. Five mistakes, England won't win.

Get on down to Dance floor Dale. Attention this comes with a NSFW label.

Mountable one could say. You will pass this on won't you?

This whole affair is so, so England. I love my football but my enthusiasm for the national team is no better than that of the players that represent us. I felt I had wasted two hours of my life watching that dross tonight. I have no doubt we will qualify but will make no friends in doing so. DWB Tonights game reminded me of the Scotland -v- Peru game in 1978. Boy, we were shite. I suppose you could always say you're undefeated. Not only that but we hold a record. This is our tenth no score bore at a world cup, the most by any team in world cup history according to FIFA.

This whole affair is so, so England. I love my football but my enthusiasm for the national team is no better than that of the players that represent us. I felt I had wasted two hours of my life watching that dross tonight. I have no doubt we will qualify but will make no friends in doing so. DWB Where does the money come from to pay the team, its entourage and its 5* hotel bill? If it is in anyway funded by the taxpayer can one ask for a rebate or at least a reimbursement for the money wasted on beer tonight?

I'd like there to be a ban on mobiles at my work. Damn these illimited SMS bundles. I was helping out one of the students who needs a kick up the arse as far as productivity is concerned. He was texting merrily away without a second thought. I asked him to stop more than once before he focused on the work. Even then one of our group had phoned him on several occasions; we were in another building, so he was castrated from our other workshy compatriots. 26 and he can't work autonomously or think for himself or indeed respect us by listening to the warnings we give him that the boss isn't impressed. I knew this would turn into a rant.

They got the DRAW bit right. Cue tumbleweed.

Good call! I'd like to tweak it slightly to add the word UNified just in front

How far is that exactly as the Bird drives?

Thinking within the Venn diagram, all acronyms are in fact abbreviations whereas abbreviations are not all acronyms. Keeping it close to home Benelux is a shortened (one might say abbreviated) form of Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg. It is also an acronym. Vive les langues vivantes! (Except when the derivatives end up as faux-amis)

I too am a big fan of not reading the instructions. I made the assumption that transfers are only made between the rounds, as in after all the first matches are played. In fact I've got a work league with the Ronald McFantasy that I've been paying more attention too, along with my virtual panini album, which isn't very girly now is it.

I might have to eat my hat tomorrow, but I reckon it's got draw written all over it. And it'll really rile the krauts for added benefit. I think the Serbs and Ghana will beat the Socceroos though. Hat soup for me. Nice predicting HCW. The pastafarian last supper? Aside: Google also came up with this tasty treat that requires canned pasteurized cheddar cheese snack (answers on a postcard please!).

Looks like I've misunderstood the scoring of the game they call sochair for many years. Apparently we must have lost then? (Well I guess it does sort of feel like it).

Can be chosen in either reverse of forwards order, the question says it all. Edit - I forgot to add that the correct response can be found in H's sig, hence the reason for the poll.