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As opposed to knocking one out yourself presumably?

I always heard the Bolan line as 'diamond star halo' - still nonsense though. Mind you, I always misheard the Simon and Garfunkel line 'Michigan seems like a dream to me now' as 'this chicken seems like a dream to me now'. Knew it couldn't be right but couldn't get past it every time I listened.

Strained rhymes always make me laugh - Alicia Keys in 'New York' rhymes bridge with fridge. Dancing Queen with tambourine but I suppose they can be forgiven as English is a second language.

No luckily pipped at the post by some idiot called Mandaric. Should have noticed the sellers ratings of 5% though.

Or 'I tried to jump the queen but was pulled out by a bloke already in the queen'

'Queen coming out of the door and down to the corner of the stand/start of the car park!' Could have been worse - 'it took a long time for the queen to go down' Or ' I was stuck for ages at the back of the queen'

Yes bonfire night - increasing the strength of bangers by sellotaping them up, jumping jacks which must be banned now as they invariably chased you up the path and into your house and making our own explosions with weedkiller and sugar. Made me laugh at your mention of carrying axes - you were...

Just to mention that on my local news Look East (bizarrely Northampton counts as East Anglia) the protests did get some coverage in the sports round up. It seems that whether we support it or not (and I'm undecided on the best way) that disruption gets reported and the issue some airtime - and...

Great memories - haven't thought of potato puffs for over 40 years! The stink bombing of Owen and Owen made me laugh - we used to buy ours from a joke shop somewhere near the Alexandra? cinema. They were glass capsules that you cracked under your heel and normally deployed in the lifts as Owen...

Have bid for a cowboy outfit on Ebay and with minutes to go I'm still the winning bidder and in turns out I'm buying Coventry City. Is it possible to cancel my bid?

In terms of it being paved over yes you're probably right but I miss the open views towards the spires and paradoxically it looks more hemmed in by the usual bland brickwork.

Melissa Rauch is out of my hearing range

'When the floods came' a story set in the future and interestingly features the Ricoh Arena. The author mentions the grey seats which either means an error in research or perhaps a real glimpse of the future. Excellent read.

Agree with the open space ideas - other countries do the so well and in Europe I've always admired the big squares of Madrid, Bruges etc. We seem to be scared of spaces in this country and fill them with crap. My local city of Norwich is a fine city but missed an opportunity with its riverside...

Not sure how Keith Richards can count as he surely qualifies as the living dead?

People who say 'like' every other word, middle-aged men with earrings (more cringe-worthy than annoying to be honest), women with tattoos, BBC trailers for dramas already started, programmes that waste a third of the programme recapping and also telling you what's coming up later, situation...

As Homer Simpson asks, 'if god is all around why do I have to go to the same building every Sunday?'

And here's the nub of why religion is so scary - Homosexuals (lucky for them) are not mentioned so not outlawed! Are we to infer that if your book had mentioned them as sinful this would have trumped your own values of tolerance? And, if as you say, ultimate power corrupts then an all powerful...

Yes we respect the right of anyone to believe what they want but we do not have to respect that belief. This is key and often forgotten in these politically correct times. Free speech has been hard won. Remember religion is still trying to suppress scientific knowledge today sometimes in...

Science never claims it has the whole truth, in fact it works by testing its theories to destruction - something religion never does. This is why religious belief is arrogant and regressive. If there is something we don't understand (and there are still plenty of mysteries out there) science...