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"Why are you people not dead yet? Do us a favour and unplug yourselves. Disconnect your oxygen pump. If you can't ask the nurses for help, just lean over and switch your life support machines off yourself." – Rian van Heerden, 702 Talk Radio

Announcing my next performance:

Well, "bite the dust" is a little bit tasteless, and because a tsunami implies "water", I decided that "biting the mud" was a necessary progression of the cliche.

Happy Birthday to you

If fifty eight years of hinting doesn't mean anything, I doubt all-out war will mean anything either. Clearly the Israelis are unpopular. It's hard to take sides in this battle, because I acknowledge that the Holocaust was a terrible thing, but so is taking the lives of innocent Arabs.

I know, I know, I've been busy and so on.

So anyway, one of the members of the Discovery crew currently in space is called Piers Sellers. Every time I see that name, I read it as Peter Sellers. Now Peter Sellers is one of my favourite and most respected actors, but imagine, for a moment, Inspector Clouseau, being involved in a Space Shuttle mission.

The 2006 runner-up for the annual Bulwer-Lytton literary parody prize, Stuart Vasepuru from Scotland, played with one of the most famous pieces of dialogue from the Clint Eastwood movie Dirty Harry.

This question was posed, amongst others (see related link), by Rodney Weidermann: