Surprisingly, I don’t really have a problem with the Queen. If anything she deserves some sympathy for being born into an unenviable lifestyle. I don’t have any particular affection for her either. In fact I am pretty neutral on the person (lets face it, she had as much choice in the matter of her being […]
Entries from November 8th, 2006
If you can’t take a joke…
November 8th, 2006 · Comments Off on If you can’t take a joke… · Life
Both our local papers are full of righteous indignation over the comments made about Crawley on Have I Got News For You last week, but treating Prince Philips’s digs about everyone in the town being fat as if it was the legendary funniest joke in the world. To make it worse, it turns out that […]
Tags: Crawley·Local Papers·Royals·TV
US Election photo-finish
November 8th, 2006 · Comments Off on US Election photo-finish · Politics
I am always amazed by how close American elections are, given the sheer size of the electorate. The last couple of presidential elections have been close enough to hinge on one or two polling districts out of the whole country to decide the electoral college votes. Even taking the overall totals the two parties are […]
Number one
November 8th, 2006 · 6 Comments · Music
Someone sent me a link to a website which tells you what the number one single was on the day you were born – or any other date you decide to put in I suppose. Harmless fun, but I was a little disappointed by the result for me: She's Not You by Elvis Presley. It […]
American and British politicians
November 8th, 2006 · 4 Comments · Politics
With all the focus on US elections at the moment I was having a look at the political structures of the US on Wikipedia earlier and although I don’t understand their set-up over there any more than I did I now know a lot more about it, if that makes any sense, and it made […]
Tags: Elections·Statistics·USA·WILT
