Quote of the week!

[Cody]

We now return you to our scheduled programming:

The Lord of the Rings is our Brexit guide

<sniggers> One does not simply walk out of Europe!

[Disembodied]

Farmers could cash in on chicken feet by increasing exports to China for business after Brexit.

Not yet clear whether we'd just be exporting the feet au naturel, or whether they would be the ingredients of a really stonkingly innovative jam.

[Disembodied]

"That quadcopter that cost 200 bucks from Amazon.com did not stand a chance against a Patriot."

Small drone 'shot with Patriot missile'

[Malacandra]

Yes, the McAuslan stories are very funny … if you've not read it yet, you might also like GMF's memoir of his wartime experiences as a private in Burma, called Quartered Safe Out Here. It's not funny (and for funny wartime memoir, you can't beat Spike Milligan's Hitler: My Part in His Downfall and others), but it's interesting to read as the real-life background of the narrator "Dand MacNeill" in the McAuslan books.

Yes, I read it and it's an excellent book. Not sure what happened to my copy, it either got lent and never returned or lost during a house move.

[spud42]

"That quadcopter that cost 200 bucks from Amazon.com did not stand a chance against a Patriot."

Small drone 'shot with Patriot missile'

i watched the wan show on youtube over the weekend. its on the Linus Tech Tips channel.... they are a Canadian company.... and they seemed very very certain it was Canadians that shot down the drone...

[Disembodied]

"If Brexit is a disaster I will go and live abroad. I will go and live somewhere else."
—Nigel Farage

[Smivs]

That man is so contemptible I frankly don't know what to say!

[Disembodied]

I say, good luck to Nigel, in his future career as an economic migrant! It's that kind of can-do, get-up-and-go attitude that's made Britain what it is today.

[Getafix]

"If Brexit is a disaster I will go and live abroad. I will go and live somewhere else."
—Nigel Farage

I say, good luck to Nigel, in his future career as an economic migrant! It's that kind of can-do, get-up-and-go attitude that's made Britain what it is today.

Perfectly stated by Disembodied!
...and i'm sure that we can all find names in our countries, to replace for 'Nigel' and 'Britain' and still have a valid quote!

[Disembodied]

At last, some good news:

Spiders could theoretically eat every human on Earth in one year

[Cody]

At last, some good news:

It's good news week
Someone's found a way to give
The rotting dead a will to live
Go on and never die

[Smivs]

Spiders could theoretically eat every human on Earth in one year

Yeah, but I bet we could eat them quicker.....

[Malacandra]

At last, some good news:

It's good news week
Someone's found a way to give
The rotting dead a will to live
Go on and never die

"Hedgehoppers Anonymous" UIVMM. Amazing what sticks in the brain for fifty years...

[Cody]

Indeed!

[Disembodied]

Tyrannosaurus rex was a sensitive lover, scientists find

Outline, using squared paper, how this alters our interpretation of Jesse Ventura's recommendation for chewing tobacco in the movie Predator.