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The sad thing about the French and Napoleon is that Napoleon did more damage to France than both World Wars combined yet they revere him.

Comedians fall into categories and I'm assuming that you mean stand-up comedians.We've had so many top class ones from the days of radio-Ted Ray , Jimmy Edwards,Chic Murray and so on. Before that there were the great music hall comedians.Remember Max Wall?Later on in the TV age there are Billy...

The point to remember is that there were some pretty smart guys in those days. They didn't have the knowledge base that we have but were pretty brainy. I ask you , could YOU work out the length of a year by just naked eye observation? Even the Romans had it worked out to the nearset hour.

Spike Milligan was a comedian to whom many later great ones admit a great debt because of his ground breaking humour. In turn he was probably influenced by Chic Murray. "Visiting London, Chic was asked by a stranger, "Do you know the Battersea dog's home?". He replied, "I didn't even know it was...

In a sense WW2 was a continuation of WW1 (Clemenceau in 1918 said "It's a ceasefire , not peace , it will last for 20 years") One surprising thing about Harry Patch is that he was severely wounded, spending a year in hospital , yet reached such a magnificent age.

Re: Obama has lost a lot of creditibilty over comments on Prof. Gates' arrest at his It would take more than a trivial event such as this to shake his credibility (and with it the US's credibility) In fact it shows how his opponents are really having to scrape the barrel and reduces their...

This is probably a question to which there is no right answer.Damned if you do , damned if you don't. The argument is complicated by the fact that ******* and tobacco are still legal.I's always difficult to make any argument with that background.******* and tobacco do have enormous social...

Just a week after the death of Henry Allingham we learnt today of the death of Harry Patch.I believe there's only one WW1 veteran left now. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8168691.stm

I once received this letter from a good friend who is a Playmate with her own website; It’s very costly on my side as well to keep the site going with all the server fees, merchant fees, security script fees every month etc etc and when people start posting stuff for free, I’ll be ****** to...

Even then you can probably open it in FF using the IEtab add on. You can be pretty certain that anything fancy in IE had been copied from FF or one of its addons.

That's different from here-the top earners are smart enough to pay very little if any tax.They employ people like tax accountants who find ways of avoiding them.

Tragically, very few families these days take their meals together.Those that do probably teach their **** how to behave at the table.

Turn down the sound and watch the cricket. Like him or not , Geoff Boycott has a brilliant cricketing brain .

Those who know Scotland realise the two seasons are July 25th and winter.

I went to Scotland once. It was shut.

I've certainly never seen any sign of people dispensing with knives.What I do see from time to time is the disgusting habit of ******** straight from the bottle.I've seen quite a few angry exchanges about this ; no gentleman would ever ***** from a bottle.

No, I think they are what you're looking for.Loverboys is straightforward , sensations needs sifting through.There are plenty of free clips about.

The Channel 5 website has the highlights available for download for a week after first showing. http://demand.five.tv/Episode.aspx?episodeBaseName=C5144020004

Conveniently forgetting the reprieves from being plumb lbw. It's too easy to only remember those decisions that go against you.

No it isn't.

Try the loverboys website. Also type sensations 4 women without the spaces in your Google taskbar.

I judge right and wrong by the effect it has on others.I don't think lying in itself is wrong , it only becomes so if the motives are wrong.Sometimes telling the truth is hurtful ; if not necessary I don't do it. I lie to my ****** all the time.She is in a nursing home and has lost most of her...

First Ashes victory at Lord's since 1934 and only the second since 1896. Freddie was inspirational.

I just think it's downright ****** stupid as well as ignorant to invent and use a bastard word when our language already contains the exact word. It's also known as a hen party.

NHS dentist charge a maximum of £198 for any course of treatment regardless of how many teeth need attention : * Band 1: £16.50. This charge includes an examination, diagnosis and preventive advice. If necessary, it also includes X-rays, scale and polish and planning for further treatment...

I don't find either of them particularly exciting or attractive.

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The feminine eqivalent of bachelor is spinster. Bachelorette is a bastard word.

Not really in my view.It's about being committed to a relationship.The only way society recognises this commitment is through marriage, that's why it's been a stabilising thing until recently.People who think it's unnecessary to show this commitment (by avoiding the formality) are probably...

Henry Allingham died today at the age of 113.He was the last serviceman to actually see action in World War 1. His life began in Victorian times , the changes this great man must have seen.

Bad decisions are unfortunately part of any game , everything is done to reduce the frequency but human error is always going to be there and technology doesn't always bridge the gap. The TMS team were quite convinced that Ponting was plumb lbw , the bad decision was in being given out...

Yes, to involve 400 000 people over many years with the whole world watching and to fool them all is some hoax.Easier by far to put some men on the moon.

Yep. Fingers crossed.

When I was in my formative years I never came across a couple which divorced.Whether they stayed together for the ********-unlike another poster I think this is a very good reason; it's long been realised that ******** are better off with both parents even if they don't get on (except where...

And King Richard nearly bankrupted the country with the Crusades and left his ******* John to clear up the mess.Yet Richard is well regarded and John is seen as the villain of the piece.

I love optimism.

It was a strange affair , there were only 7 prisoners and some of them were noblemen.it was only defended by a small number of retired veterans and a handful of Swiss mercenaries.It was by no means as bad as most other prisons in Paris at the time.What of course it did have was stocks of gunpowder.

Please can I have them both?

They stopped airbrushing in 1990 or so they say.Mind you, there's more than one way to skin a cat. PB had a poor run of silicone enhanced blow up doll Playmates. PB did a lot to make softcore respectable to the general public.

Interesting to see about Edison's light bulb patents-he certainly didn't invent the light bulb , it had already been demonstrated and patented in England in 1841.

113000 on my Ford , the interior still looks as if it just left the factory. Not a clue on my other car, had it 22 years ago and it was old then , it's a classic MG.

That hardly counts as the greatest entertainer FOR ALL TIME does it? The majority of replies have been limited to entertainers posters have seen.That's not the same thing at all.

I don't argue with their effect or their contribution to the direction of music , it's just that I find their actual performance less gripping than some of their contemporaries. Why do so many posters resrict their nominations to recent performers?Probably because so many great entertainers of...

The temperature you ***** the **** profoundly affects the taste.Even American **** enthusiasts realise that when ******** good **** the last thing it wants is chilling right down and serving from a frosted glass.How can the flavours come through that? The consensus is that good **** is...

And Bert Grant was a Scots-Canadian! Many countries brew excellent beers-the US micros , UK real ales , Germany, Belgium. Many of the beers mentioned in this thread are pretty poor examples-the vast majority of the world drinks pale false Pilsners or lagers , often chilled to death to disguise...

You are all mentioning people whose popularity has been vastly assisted by modern marketing and publicity machines , who have been brought to the mass public by the wonders of film ,TV and electronic means , who have a range of effects simply unavailable to entertainers of the past.I'll stick my...

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He had well above average talent but as I wrote in a previous post he was helped by all sorts of devices , publicity managers and modern communications.Strip these away and how did he stack up for example over the great music hall entertainers or say Houdini ?

It's difficult to compare entertainers from different periods;in the past they didn't have effects , professionally choreographed backing, amplification and hype.

There was a lovely Matt cartoon in the Telegraph once with a lot of elderly protesters chanting "What do we want?" "Why are we here?"