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Now out on DVD (with added features) This the Personal Space of the Researcher formerly and once more known as Gosho This page is best viewed in Glorious Goo And for those of you with slower connections: Click here to see this page in one of h2g2's less bandwidth-hungry skins. Our Founder Douglas Noel Adams 1 x 47 - 2 - 0 - 3 = 42 Some words on events in the Middle East From Robert Bolt's play A Man For All Seasons (the story of the conflict between Sir Thomas More and King Henry VIII during the period that the king was seceding from Rome and forming the Church of England), written in the 1950s: Alice While you talk, he is goneAnd from former British foreign secretary, the late Robin Cook: "If there was no threat from Iraq we obviously had no right to carry out a pre-emptive strike to remove that threat. And we better drop that doctrine before somebody else in the world uses it in their own back yard." Is this where George W. Bush got his foreign policy from... a song written more than 30 years ago? Or was Randy Newman being unbelievably prescient? For I am a Rain Dog too A Rain Dog is... you notice it more in lower Manhattan than anywhere else - after a rain in New York all the dogs that got caught in the rain, somehow the water washed away their whole trail and they can't get back home so about four in the morning you see all these stranded dogs on the street and they're looking around like, 'Won't you help me get back home, sir, please? Excuse me sir, excuse me sir, can you help me find my way back home?'... all makes and models - the short ones, the black ones, the tall ones, the expensive ones, the long ones, the disturbed ones, they all want to get home. So that's a Rain Dog. It's like falling asleep somewhere and you thought you knew where you were and when you woke up - it's like Mission Impossible - they changed the furniture and the walls and windows and the sky turned a different colour and you can never get back. For the record
Let's get one thing straight 'Source' is not a verb, okay? If you like this sort of thing... Probably the best mission statement in the world... ever:
Lord Lucan sez buffaloes are ok "Sex is good, but not as good as fresh, sweet corn." Roses are #FF0000
John Peel: 1939-2004 The owners and proprietors of this establishment accept People have been talking about this Guide Entry. Here are the most recent Conversations: Journal Entries Welcome to this Researcher's Journal. If you'd like to comment on anything they have written here, just click the relevant 'Discuss this Entry' button. Define 'best' (18 Hours Ago)http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...e-ten-best-floor-lamps-1847136.html Number 4 and number 7 are, to quote DNA, the products of a deranged imagination, especially looking at the price of number 7  'More money than sense' are the words that come to mind for that one. Pity, because one of the best beds I ever made was filched from a Roche-Bobois design  When I visited Paris in 1984 I even went to their main showroom to try and find the real thing.Number 5 is pleasing to the eye, but I think it'd only fit in a 1950s-themed room. I quite like it. Number 9 is an interesting idea but I wouldn't buy it. Far too Stoke Newington. And then there's number 8. Looks like the sort of thing that some of my, shall we say, less discerning relatives would have bought in the 70s. When it comes to decor you can't beat a classic http://www.tiffanystainedglasslamp.com/photos/MFY703.jpg Click here to discuss this (6 replies, Latest reply: 13 Hours Ago) The only way is up (20 Hours Ago) The days start getting longer from here  First though, we've got to deal with a bit of wandering noon A3239796I never used to be aware of it in London but it's noticeable here around the winter solstice. Sunset continues to get earlier for a week or two after the shortest day when logic says that it should start getting later as the days begin to lengthen again. I've never actually tracked the official sunrise and sunset times to see if that's really what's happening. Click here to discuss this (4 replies, Latest reply: 18 Hours Ago) Oh I wish I hadn't sat down just then (3 Days Ago) Because now I've got to get up again, and that's getting progressively more difficult and painful. Too many bits hurt these days. I'm not quite at the Arthur Dent "Bits of me keep passing out" stage yet, but that can't be far off. Time for some medication I think  Click here to discuss this (12 replies, Latest reply: Yesterday) Eeeee, when ah were a lad... (4 Days Ago) My mother used to shove tablespoons of malt extract down my throat every morning because "It's good for you." Used to make me gag and heave like billy-o. I've got some here - I bought it to make a malt loaf with, which turned out pretty tasty. I just tried a spoonful of the syrup - the taste brought back some vivid childhood memories of cold winter mornings and walking to school in the days when the world was still in black and white. So I took a look at the nutritional information on the label of this wonder stuff: Total fat 0g Cholesterol 0g Sodium 0g Potassium 65mg Total carbohydrate 14g Dietary fibre 0g Protein 1g Vitamin A 0% Vitamin C 0% Calcium 0% Iron 0% There doesn't seem to be a whole lot in it, apart from the naturally occurring sugars, so why on earth was I tortured with the stuff each and every damn day?  The rose hip syrup and Haliborange tablets were much easier to deal with.Click here to discuss this (11 replies, Latest reply: Yesterday) Oh the irony... once more (Last Week) One of the things we've learnt from the current debate in the US is that a major factor in the astronomical cost of healthcare in this country is the huge number of unnecessary tests that patients are put through, partly because of the threat of lawsuits if doctors don't, partly because doctors get paid more for ordering more tests and partly because patients demand and expect them (see above re. lawsuits). Now it seems that getting too many CT scans can increase your risk of cancer and some patients are already suing hospitals as a result. Damned if you do and damned if you don't. Click here to discuss this (9 replies, Latest reply: 4 Days Ago) Click here to see more Journal Entries Most Recent Conversations
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