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Just in case your thinking it ends at 1:06am, that's the midway point GMT in the UK for the eclipse. It actually ends at 4.22am.

I use sticky tape to catch criminals. Then I offer them terms as henchpersons in my organisation. I laugh at the feeble attempts of the law worms in catching me. Their brains are so small, I hear the rattle as they run towards me.

Piggy!!! , I LO vE you piggy!

I think I've got a non-rechargeable battery charger in my Mum's loft. It's up there next to the waffle iron and fondue pot. The only thing I have that uses non-rechargeable batterys is the TV control, and they last for years anyhow.

The use of rollers isn't in dispute. It's got quite good evidence for it. However, even with rollers you cannot move a 8 tones of solid rock up a 45 degree angle. Hence the established theory of pushing sand up around the pyramid during construction to make the base effectively at ground level. Of course, it's worth remembering the use of rollers, pivots and fulcrums that the hieroglyphs and physical evidence point to. It's make's the whole thing less mysterious and open to unsubstantiated theory.

Rudy Rucker teaches computer science at San Jose State University. Apparently he's quite good at math's too, but not really encroaching on Umberto Eco. I was taking with a lecturer of computer science the other weekend, while a bit drunk. Which was fun.

They are when Phil Schofield and Bob Monkhouse write them. Also, they are super funny.

The rebuilding of Iraq has begun. I've had real people ring me up on my actual phone asking for stuff that they needed. Which was odd, as they were asking for stuff that I didn't have from my company, a company that sells nothing at all.

I bought it the same time I bought the carbine and the hollow points. Now all I need is a president who's too big for his shoes.

The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts - Louis de Bernieres, A book on Blues poetry, by someone or other, Hagakure, The Book of the Samurai. Which is fairly poor, and a bit silly. Chamfort, reflections on life, love & society. The Catcher in the Rye, which I suspect is from the same 3 for 2 offer in Waterstones as yours.

I don't recall seeing any diagrams that showed apparatus quite like this. However, there isn't any secret as to how the pyramids were built. As I said, the most popular theory is the opposite of digging a giant hole, they simply pushed the sand up to make each level ground level.

I think the most popular theory at the moment is almost exactly the opposite of Pinch's.

Interesting, there would have to be some sort of Global I.Q. test, possibly hosted by Phil Schofield and Bob Monkhouse. That would sort out how smart we are as a species. Bit harder to work out the primitive man's I.Q. though, there would have to be some sort of Jurassic Park style shenanigans to bring back a group for comparative study.

Basically the difference here is free time. Cavemen, or primitive man, didn't quite have the happy go lucky day to day existence that you might perceive from the teachings in school. The majority if their day would be taken up with activities, such as hunting, eating, tending the group, scouting, gathering edible vegetation, looking after the children etc. The tedious tasks required to stay alive in the harsh environment take up all the time given in a day (apart from cave painting, apparently, the lazy slobs). Precious little time would be set aside for idle contemplation. We know from history that the majority of advances that are made in logic or invention came from people who had a lot of free time to contemplate things. The Greek philosophers who founded modern civilization had a democracy that exited through the slaves that provided the working class, freeing the time up for the Greeks to pursue more cerebral tasks. Einstein himself had a menial job that allowed vast amounts of time for his idle speculation of relativity. If he had worked in a farm from dawn to dusk, his theories would probably never have emerged. Your probably right, just because all you see of primitive man is flint tools and the occasional painting you don't assume that they were mentally subnormal. Take the Incas for example, their civilization was incredibly advanced when Europe was still in the popular 'live in a cave' phase. Their enviroment and culture gives them quite a lot of free time to do stuff not relating to staying alive, hence the jump ahead of the rest of civilisation.

Ah, I looked and found I lied.

You get no direct notification. A bit like real life, they only know if they look at their buddy list and you are on it.

Frog, yes. Rats, yes. Moss, um, if you like. Cows lungs, pig hearts etc are all fine. But a domesticated cat that was only brought over by the colonists to keep them company in the new world? Bit harsh, that. It's just not cricket.

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Um, should you not be migrating towards the homework help forum? Plus, in what context are you using the term nocturnal? Nocturnal what?

Yes, but I look a lot bigger if you put me next to baby monkeys.

It is actually gold, just an alloy. If we bring Socrates argument in here, at what point does it stop being gold? 1% impurity? 2%, 3%? Which carrat of gold is actually gold, and what is the rest classifed as? To put it another way :- Your not actually YT2095. I'm not really a very, very small monkey. We are just adopting those names. White Gold is called White Gold because it is, not because of what it is.

Why is it a false term? It's gold, it's white, it's what people call it. The only natural occuring white gold is called welsh gold. Because it's made of leeks, apparently.

Stuipid sesquipedalian tweeny.

If Faf didn't have to release the vitriol built up during his bout cystoureteropyelonephritis which lead to the floccinaucinihilipilificatious statement of pseudoantidisestablishmentarianism, he wouldnt have triggered Stephs Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia. And stuff.

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