Canada

Was told by the boss that a trip to Canada is on the cards! Might be going for 2-3 weeks. Very excited and already getting far too carried away. I'm planning a trip to Niagara Falls, have got to fit in a bit of skiing of course, maybe also pop down to US for a weekend and wander around, catch a baseball game... try to get a ticket to Playbill (Billy Crystal's show on Broadway at the moment that David Letterman was going on about last week). Remember Billy Crystal? He was the guy in that film ~~When Harry Met Nazi~~ When Harry Met Sally.

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Why do women live longer than men?

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Here's a link to the Disasters Emergency Committee who are appealling for help in the aftermath of the tsunami in SE Asia.

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Who wrote the Bible?

Did anyone watch the Channel 4 programme "Who wrote the Bible" presented by Robert Beckford on Christmas day? Please make comments and offer any opinions you may have about it because I was certainly quite interested by what was said. To get your two hour documentary on the Bible shown on national television Christmas Day afternoon/evening is no mean achievement, however, it was Channel 4, the channel that last night showed "Wife Swap", followed by "Na*ed Britain" followed by "Diary of a Teenage Nu*ist." It makes me wonder what their criteria for airing something might be!

I've got some questions of my own:
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False advertising

The National Lottery's latest ad urges us to play the lottery because "your chances of winning increase significantly if you actually play!" I somehow doubt that... My chances of winning when I don't play are zero. If I buy one ticket, my chances of winning the jackpot are one in fourteen million. Chances of winning anything at all are 54 to 1. That's not a significant increase! Anyone else think they should be done for false advertising?

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The Nightmare before Christmas Eve

What I really didn't want to happen for Christmas happened on Christmas Eve. I did something I always do without fail - I turned the handle to flush the toilet (...don't worry kids, this isn't rude) which, as expected, started the flush. What wasn't anticipated was my superhuman strength which caused the fairly solid metal handle to shear right off, causing it to plop into the swirling mini rapids of the bowl and flush itself down the U-bend. Thankfully, Santa sent round a helpful plumber which was kind especially as around Christmas it must get pretty busy. Don't know what I would've done otherwise... The tank was sealed shut and I didn't have a bucket (what with shops being closed) to chuck water down the toilet to initiate any kind of flush... Hmmm, I'm struggling to find any semi-relevant links to this little tale, except of course that a search for "toilet accident" turns up some ~~amusing~~ horrific stories. Anyway, that's probably enough about toilets, I seem to talk about them every month. They really are a blessing though!

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