Magere Hein

Oh crap. I wasn't a big fan, but I remember her songs.

She's dead, and has been since pretty much she disappeared. They clearly don't want their kid to be dead, but leaving her alone in a foreign country was shit parenting to say the least. And The Sun/Express/delete as applicable continue to bring the girl up because their readers like misery porn. I suppose a 3 y/o missing girl is much better misery porn than a 12 y/o live brat.

ISTM being found unconscious is a common outcome after a night out in Luton.

Dr. Stephenson Billings is an award-winning Investigative Journalist, Motivational Children's Party Entertainer and Antique Soda Bottle Collector all in one special, blessed package! :D

Were they afraid Kong would eat the nameless female before sex? As I understand it, octopusses die after mating anyway. I don't see a problem in one of the particpants making an after sex snack out of the other. I don't recommend that for humans, though.

But women are from Venus! According to the same wisdom men don't have to go there.

Actually, quite the contrary. Mr.Scalia was an extremely intelligent man. He knew and understood the Constitution and that was how he formed an opinion and ruling. Even the more liberal minds of The Court found this to be the case. At any rate, he will be missed. May his replacement on the bench be at least half as fair-minded and wise. I know and understand little of the Constitution, nor am I deeply interested. I rather like the practice of published dissenting opinions, something Dutch procedural law forbids. I have no opinion of Justice Scalia's intelligence. For all I know he was a sharp legal thinker. I think he would have been a better justice if he'd applied more of his intelligence to the real world. Anyway. his death got an article on Dutch popular news site nu.nl, a rare distinction for a US lawyer.

I'm glad to learn I'm not the only one who thinks that. Don't they have editors anymore? I'll give the book a miss then as I didn't care for the film at all. I bought it as something to read on a long flight well after the film was made, in particular because I had read his Sphere and rather liked it. I was disappointed, but finished the book. Nowadays I would have abandoned it.

I'm glad to learn I'm not the only one who thinks that. Don't they have editors anymore?

I was a child in the 60s, I grew up with Apollo. I was certain I would live to see a permanently inhabited moonbase. I'm not so sure I will, now. I'll settle for a woman on Mars.

Yes, one of the effects is becoming drunk and disorderly.

Korean War Vets it is. This one has some interest to me, because there are Dutch Korean War Vets. I can't name one, but they must be well in the fading away phase now.

I can't say Justice Scalia's death means much to me. I remember his name, because he's the subject of Stephen Jay Gould's essay Justice Scalia's Misunderstanding. It's a rather dreary piece about the history of geology, principles of science and Scalia's dissent in Edwards v. Aguillard. Not just a conservative, not a bright one either.

Let's think about this. I suppose that when a really famous person dies, in the phil/pope/potus class, any and all newspaper with an eye on world events will carry the news. Possibly in thousands of languages. My current rules say: present the evidence and points will be awarded if its language can be identified and if it is one of the 291 languages that have a Wikipedia. I don't expect obits written in Latin, but if you find one in a reliable news source (doesn't the Vatican do a news bulletin in Latin?) you're in luck. The trouble with a cap is that any number lower than 291 is arbitrary. Hell, my choice of what are qualifying languages is utterly arbitrary. Contenders get a week to find QOs in as many QLs as they can. They can also let other members, who have the same hit, do the work. They all score the same, barring jokers. I'm not keen on a cap, but if somebody has ideas or a new perspective, spit it out. Oh, and the period of the deadline can be shorter. How about a day? A day's too short. Some of us do work, you know! But, your ball, your rules. Sure, but I like a bit of feedback, particularly questions of the type: "Do you think that's wise?" Of course is a day too short. I can also enter an element of randomness here, by ruling that the deadline ends midnight GMT starting the Monday following the death of a pick. Oh, and Carter has a Latin Wiki.

Dawkins is ex officio on my second list. I dismissed Wilders from my Theme Team for poor performance. I passionately disagree with WIlders. Should he die I won't mourn him, but that doesn't mean I hope he dies.

Did they burn the witches?

Let's think about this. I suppose that when a really famous person dies, in the phil/pope/potus class, any and all newspaper with an eye on world events will carry the news. Possibly in thousands of languages. My current rules say: present the evidence and points will be awarded if its language can be identified and if it is one of the 291 languages that have a Wikipedia. I don't expect obits written in Latin, but if you find one in a reliable news source (doesn't the Vatican do a news bulletin in Latin?) you're in luck. The trouble with a cap is that any number lower than 291 is arbitrary. Hell, my choice of what are qualifying languages is utterly arbitrary. Contenders get a week to find QOs in as many QLs as they can. They can also let other members, who have the same hit, do the work. They all score the same, barring jokers. I'm not keen on a cap, but if somebody has ideas or a new perspective, spit it out. Oh, and the period of the deadline can be shorter. How about a day?

Hmm. What is that supposed to mean? Nothing, really. Strokes do different things to different (and the same) persons. There's also the fact that he's on my Second Theme Team. I think there's nothing to gloat about.

It's stll being made and marketed as Cyanosil. Thanks, nowt a bit of rebranding won't sort out eh? Coming next year to a provincial theatre - Light Entertainment Legends featuring the Stars of Operation Yewtree Chemicals don't kill people...

It's stlll being made and marketed as Cyanosil.

Hmm.

And their mothers, of course.

Q: Good morning mr Piggott, how are we today? A: WHUTH?

My visit, in February and March 1998 to Sydney, NSW, was a linguistic joy. The first time I heard an Australian say: "No worries", I laughed out loud. I had quite some time to kill there, much of which I spent at the bar in the Lord Nelson. My pommy accent was made fun of of course, and occasionally I needed a translation, but I much relished the local lingo.