is'nt there a disproportionate number of people arrested at NASA for things like downloading porn, plotting murders etc etc ?.

Sloppy reporting here, Mr Page:

"the much-wrangled-over nappies found in Nowak's motor were actually her children's, used while evacuating in the face of Hurricane Rita"

I'm confused now. Does this mean that Nowak is a dwarf with an incredibly skinny arse, or that her kids are chronically obese and need huge nappies?

Either way, I'll bet Rita was glad that the kids wore nappies if they were evacuating in her face.

she's the expert in "Long Duration Missions" that the Navy have (allegedly) been looking for!

Is that a post as "Flight Instructor" or "Fight Instructor"?

I'm more conderned that she was "evacuating in the face of Hurricane Rita" Does this simply involve going out into the wind, dropping her pants and letting it all go, or is some sort of contraption required to properly target the face?

And another thing, I know hurricanes have eyes but do they have entire faces?

We don't have this word in the States, but in the context of an infant, it's kind of cute. In the context of a crazed astronaut - it's priceless!

"Lykkebak has previously stated that the much-wrangled-over nappies found in Nowak's motor were actually her children's, used while evacuating in the face of Hurricane Rita in September 2005, fifteen months before the unpleasantness in the carpark."

Even as a lame defense, would you seriously claim this? As AC "Used?!" says, who the hell would keep used diapers in their car for 15 months... also I would think that it'll be easy to tell 1) they're totally the wrong size and 2) Roughly how long they've been soiled.

Astronauts these days, jeez....

Fantastic. I LOL'd.

Oddly enough the English usage of Nappy, a diminutive of Napkin which itself has roots as a diminutive of Nappe or 'table cloth' (the same root as Map). Whereas Diaper comes from a word or phrase meaning 'very white' and was used to describe an ornamental cloth.

So perhaps this is just mistranslation and although to us in the UK it appears that she had very small table cloths that may have been fowled by urine and/or faecal matter. In the USA it was obvious that she drove wearing only very white ornamental cloths and discarded these when she left the car for the bitch fight, sorry I mean 'incident' .

I think I prefer to think of the second option.

P.S. could we have a 'beware UK 'English' English usage' Icon