h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

http://www.yungchenlhamo.com/

Very interesting, pheloxi!

Vicky

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_1/7043053.stm

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6851159367044940771

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel-cut_oats

sing about monkfish!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbarchers/F2693943?thread=4695819

http://www.imaginedvillage.com/audiovideo/236/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnnS9spo_3k&mode=related&search=

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/AddThread?inreplyto=54633550

"Friends Of The Bride have fallen back on that old cliché: if you don't fit into a genre just make-up your own, and in this case the genre would be "nu-croon". "Nu" as in 21st century and "croon" as in Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darrin and the rest of the rat pack. Don't look at me like that, it was them that made it up, not me."


Erm, yes, so that was me writing 'bout music. What a surprise...

http://www.theelders.org/

PP

(Still)

It appears that Stanwix was built on a ridge of high ground clear of the northern edge of the flood plain to defend the of the wall north of the river. The fort also was positioned to defend the end of River Eden bridge supported by Carlisle in guarding the southern end

This: http://files.dogster.com/pix/cats/49/229349/229349_1181697789.gif

Of course, the other reasons why public schools, et c, offer limited scholarships to the exceptionally gifted but dirt-poor and socially unconnected can be summed up as follows:-

A few seriously bright kids will do the exam results no harm and offset the damage caused by the rich, socially connected, fully-paid-up but unfortunately thick students who are the school's bread and butter; to extend the metaphor, this is the jam that disguises the stale bread... this offers the illusion of academic excellence.
It makes for good PR and we can display them prominently, to prove we really are concerned about social divisions and lack of upward mobility in our society, this is our contribution to social justice but alas, we can only do so much;
The rest of the underclass can hope, just as they hope to one day win the Lottery, and this staves off social unrest from people who are deflected from seeing that life for the vast majority of them will remain unchanged;
If said underclass produces such bright buggers from time to time, they're potentially dangerous, so we'd better keep them where we can see them and make absolutely sure they aren't left to their own devices, where they might start asking questions, or going into the wrong sort of politics, or worse, become revolutionaries. (This is traditionally the way in which the British ruling establishment has managed threats from the British non-establishment: by inviting them in and re-educating them. This has two useful consequences: potential enemies become part of the elite, and it becomes against their interests to fight against it. The British Establishment is also periodically refreshed by an influx of new brains and talent and its gene pool thrives as a result).--AgProv 20:55, 30 October 2007 (CET) being cynical.

Sharpe's Triumph - Bernard Cornwell. 2nd of the Sharpe's and I'm re-reading it for about the 4th time.

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shedloads

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Try Oxford......you know it makes sense.
http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/shedload?view=uk