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:

"Ladies and gentlemen, listen to these people. They are showing you what's wrong. People putting their clothes on backwards. Isn't that a sign of something going on wrong? Are you not paying attention? People with their hat on backwards, pants down around the crack. Isn't that a sign of something or are you waiting for Jesus to pull his pants up? Isn't it a sign of something when she's got her dress all the way up to the crack — and got all kinds of needles and things going through her body. What part of Africa did this come from? We are not Africans. Those people are not Africans; they don't know a damned thing about Africa. With names like Shaniqua, Shaligua, Mohammed and all that crap and all of them are in jail. (When we give these kinds names to our children, we give them the strength and inspiration in the meaning of those names. What's the point of giving them strong names if there is not parenting and values backing it up).

Read this article by Sharon Harris by clicking on the related link.

My Internet connection at home is still not sorted out. I'm a little upset about this. Ok, I am a LOT upset about this. Fucking useless people who can't be bothered to do a professional installation because the money is more important than customer service.