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Speaking in purely aesthetic terms, and not referring to the content, I love looking at my shelves and seeing all the books from different ranges lined up. The Penguin Classics and Voyager Classics ranges look very pleasing.

Grrrrrr...not out over here until 19th November. However that date is, somewhat conveniently, 5 days before my birthday.

I speak French to a fairly good (but by no means fluent) standard, Spanish to a similar level, a few bits of German picked up from my sister and our regular holidays in Switzerland and Austria, have a year's experience of Japanese, and am studying Classical Greek and Latin as well. Oh, and...

Thanks. (Vocabulary +1)

It'll still never defeat Iron Chef. That's the ultimate Japanese TV show. Bar all the, like, good ones.

Home-made vegetable and ham hock soup, or, for shop-bought, Covent Garden Leek and Potato soup's pretty damn' good.

On the way to Nepal, I read Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf during the first leg (to Qatar). Exciting? Check. Epic? Check. Masterfully-written/translated? Check. It's doubly worthwhile for Tolkien fans.

Is that a word for a lover of old things in general? Because, if my Greek doesn't fail me, it actually stems from the word for old man, no? Incidentally, how do you type Greek characters in here? The usual key shortcuts just produce a Roman-alphabet transliteration.

No, another guy told me about, it, honest he did, I swear I didn't search myself, nooo... Actually it REALLY was another guy who told me about it.

In an anarchic, black kind of way, yes. It's an utterly disjointed, at times incomprehensible, story, but brilliant nonetheless.

The PCGF UK forum used to be top Google result for 'Ban this sick filth!' Make of that what you will.

*Doffs cap in respect*

Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams Dirk Gently series - Douglas Adams Discworld books - Terry Pratchett Catch-22 - Joseph Heller Only Forward - Michael Marshall Smith Collected Short Stories - Saki The Man who was Thursday - G.K. Chesterton (an odd one, but the grand chase...

Seen this before, it's some pretty damn' cool lego building right there.

Arrr, ye be learnin' quick, ye scurvy cur.

Not to suggest that Alpha Complex is unsafe, quite the contrary, it is in fact a utopia, but yes, I'm sticking to it.

Avast! The correct response be "Oh yeah? Well ye fight like a cow!"

Safest place to be, in my humble opinion.

Ye fight like a dairy farmer!

I cast "Stop thread descending into ream of tired RPG-ing jokes" Ah. It would seem that I failed.