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Listed below are comments made by The Stainless Steel Cat between Friday, 20th November 2009 and Wednesday, 25th November 2009 (17 Hours Ago) .

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We're going crackers.... 4:07pm on 25 Nov 2009 Q: What's homicidal and swims in the ocean?
A: Nothing. Jack T. Kipper was fully supported by Social Services and grew up to be a fully functioning member of the fish community.

Q: How do you fit four elephants in a Mini?
A: You don't. That would be cruel to the elephants and besides, they're not proper Minis these days anyway.

Q: Why are there no painkillers in the jungle?
A: Because the parrots introduced meditation, karmic healing and feng shui, so there was no need for them.

Q: What do you get if you cross a sheep with a kangaroo?
A: A monstrous genetic mutation that would never have happened if scientists concentrated on important things like finding the Loch Ness Monster and proving that ghosts exist.

Q: What do you call a reindeer with no eyes?
A: "rendeer"
AM glass box for Weds 25th November 09:32am on 25 Nov 2009 Looternite (1, 2):

I agree, and a properly capped block grant like the other regions of the UK have rather than unrestricted spending would do away with the need for the Barnett formula. I can see no down-side to an English parliament at all. We could then do away with the UK parliament and all national issues would be decided between the relevant ministers from all parliaments.

PM peeps, any chance of getting constitutional experts on the programme to discuss this? Soon it'll be a run-up to the election and the focus will move from general issues to specific policies, so now is probably the time to do it.
PM Glass Box. 6:28pm on 24 Nov 2009 IDCA (14):

I'd hazard a guess that it'll be less than a couple of O'CheapAir flights to the Med.
Do NOT laugh 09:05am on 24 Nov 2009 Proof, once again, that Barry Cryer is the funniest man alive... who has white hair and glasses... and is called Barry.
AM Glass Box. 5:50pm on 23 Nov 2009 Lepus (40):

If you mean the data used for the papers should be in the public domain, maybe, maybe not. I'm going to spend the next 6 months or so going through various data archives including newspaper archives building up a set of data on a specific topic. When I finish that, should that data necessarily be released to the public domain, or should my department be allowed to capitalise on the investment of my time to generate research papers from that data? (Possibly for several years...)

How much time have the climate researchers invested in collecting this data? Should that just be chucked away because of some computer cracker with a grudge?
AM Glass Box. 2:36pm on 23 Nov 2009 DD (22):

I won't give the link as it includes an apparently graphic video as well as the audio from the PM programme, so it'd be bound to be modded as inappropriate. The accompanying text from that page is "BBC Carolyn Quinn of PM show on Radio4, Sunday 25th October 2009, interviews Jane Schemstone, founder of German Shepherd Rescue who discusses the RSPCA killing the German Shepherd with a bolt gun".

Obviously it can't have been Sunday 25th Oct unless Sequin's so keen to broadcast she's slipping extra PM's into the pauses in the Westminster Hour...

Perhaps the PM team can dredge up a link?
AM Glass Box. 1:43pm on 23 Nov 2009 DD (17), Me (20):

Perhaps not at the time actually. A web search gives a reference to Sequin covering it at the end of October (though it seems longer ago than that...)
AM Glass Box. 1:40pm on 23 Nov 2009 DD (17):

Indeed it was of interest to PM listeners when it was covered at the time...
Psssst. 07:30am on 21 Nov 2009 Good programme, but I'm devastated to hear that next week it's going to be buried in the unreachable depths of the early evening.

Oh well, another few weeks of early morning listening to the delights of dry-stone walling and in-depth biographies of the inventor of belly-button-fluff...
AM Glass Box. 8:04pm on 20 Nov 2009 lepus (81):

My little dog (now long gone to chase sticks in the sky) was once attacked by a labrador. It's owner barely paused in her chat to her friend to ineffectually say things like "down" and "stop it" while my poor wee thing got bitten repeatedly. If she hadn't wrapped the lead round my legs in an effort to hide from the rotten thing I'd have happily kicked that labrador in the teeth to stop the attack.

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