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As a birthday present I've activated my sleeper unit within the Republican party... keep picking 'em off one by one Dick...

I thought all the pioneering work on Autism was done by Austrians? (a friends child has Asperger's Syndrome and Asperger definately was Austrian) Edit: Did some digging round and I think you're referring too Leo Kanner who was born, raised and educated in Austria and didn't move to America till...

My advice: Be very careful who you show being given a ride by the little motorcycle...

If I was American I wouldn’t be expecting to see progress in the space of a day. But I would expect political journalists to do their job, and try and find out the details behind what Bush was saying. To my ear Bush’s comments were just sound-bites, “America is addicted to oil” being a good...

Ok, I’m going to get reluctantly drawn in at this point. Yes, Bush’s comments regarding alternative fuel sources were a step in the right direction. However the reaction to them is going to be influenced by the perception of his administrations previous attitude towards environmentalism, and...

Fair's fair, without L. Ron Hubbard one of my favourite internet photos wouldn't exist... You can have hours of fun trying to think of alternative captions.....or wishing they'd put several thousand volts through those wires when they had the chance, if only to stop "Battlefield Earth"...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfODSPIYwpQ

I think I'm right in saying that Total Fears: Letters to Dubenka is the latest Hrabal book to be published in English, although that was actually a few years back now. It's not actually a work of fiction, more a collection of his thoughts in the form of letters to a "fan". It's probably only...

"And the scores on the doors say..." 6/10. I much prefered "The Fish Can Sing", however the basic problem I had with the book was my not being in the right mindset. Laxness has a very unusual style and one that I find needs concentration, least the story washes away from you. I wasn't really in...

In order: 1) The Wine of Youth - John Fante (re-read) 2) The Master of Go - Yasunari Kawabata 3) Total Fears - Bohumil Hrabal 4) A Doll’s House - Henrik Ibsen (disappointing translation) 5) Confessions of Dan Yack - Blaise Cendraras 6) Being Freddie - Andrew Flintoff (Christmas...

Oh God, we're not going to go to war to stop terrorists gaining control of Iran's sugercane fields now are we?

Ah yes, that’s the new blue covered one from canongate; I bought that to replace my old copies of the various books. One of the best things they did with that anthology was to incorporate Buckowski’s forward to “Ask The Dust”, which is a bit of a classic of its type. Well yes, it’s wonderful...

Indeed, it had been cunningly hidden directly above the list. You may have got on board before the bandwagon starts with Fante as "Ask the Dust" has been made into a film with Colin Farrell taking the lead; he's far too tall and good looking for the part IMO, but there you go. I've been...

You know, you'd think on an internet forum dedicated to reading, people would be able to scan the title and not subsequently froth at the mouth because 'Hard Boiled' isn't on the list. But apparently not...

The correct anglicised version would be "paying out of my bloody arse for petrol". Appreciate the effort though, it's bringing us all closer together. Have a nice day y'all, K-S

"Hello, I have a daughter just a few years younger than you" would seem to be a good place for you to start Sergo... Yours Helpfully, K-S

In Britain health provision is funded via taxation with only a fraction of that money coming from corperations, which begs the question: Why is car manufacturing (including Ford) in Britain dieing on its arse when they're free of this crippling burden???

"What's the difference between the scouts and the U.S. Army? The scouts don't have heavy artillery" is indeed a good joke and his performance in that film is probably his best, unfortunately GMV is a film almost totally devoid of plot. As for comedians in general, the basic rule in Britain is...

Was this in the sentence "Compared to Peter Sellers, Robin Williams has a hit and miss sense of humour and uses speed of delivery to cover up his patchy material and remains without doubt the worst judge of a script in movie history”? If on the other hand it was a complementary comparison can...

I think we did didn’t we? Ireland and the Channel Islands like Guernsey are favoured tax havens for Rich Britons. I think for some of the Channel Islands you have to be a millionaire to move there from the mainland. I certainly doesn’t seem a hygienic way of looking after your money… Really...