3' 3" is a title, surely?

This could fix a number of problems.

Housing shortage? Two storey houses could be easily converted to four, and the top two rented out.

Nobody buying new cars? You'd have to when you couldn't reach the pedals of your old one.

Pollution? Your new half size car wouldn't generate as much.

Congestion? All motorways could become six lane ones, simply by painting three more white lines down them.

Think of it as pre-cooked roadkill.

"were willing to ethnically cleanse them""

Ethically"...

@ Oblig.

I'd settle for a Playmobil reconstruction.

"from 40 pence to £20."

How to you pay for stolen credit card details? With a stolen credit card?

Giving your own card details to a site that sees them as a saleable commodity strikes me as a bad idea.

Why isn't "100%?" an adequate title?

I wonder how many of the surveyees (is that a real word?) thought that Ipod is a generic name for an MP3 player?

Re Dearie me.

<Wipes brow>

Now where's the story I gave you about the two murdered scammers in the US?

Re Re: tired of the PMS defence

Agreed, but this one is pushing the envelope of the PMT defence in all directions.

I don't know of anyone who suffers from it unduly, I do know two diabetics and one epileptic though.

If you have a medical condition that puts others at risk, you have a responsibility to avoid the risk. And that includes taking medication. If early primrose oil is medication. Something she's admitted she didn't do.

And I still suspect this is an April Fool story.

<Title>

The BBC has now reported that the DNA has been traced to a Bavarian factory worker.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7966641.stm

"One company making swabs said they were not intended for analytical, but only medical use, while another said that there had been no requirement for the swabs to be free of DNA."

Wonderful!

@ female serial killer

The swabs are cotton buds, apparently the same as the ones sold in millions for domestic use. A product you'd expect to be sterile. With modern mass-production techniques I can't see any reason for any to be contaminated

Contamination is only a hypothesis at present, but it's a hypothesis that makes a load of problems

disappear. Best example of Occam's razor I can recall.

It isn't just DNA evidence that been discredited but criminal profiling. There was a wonderful article in The Mirror last November, http://tinyurl.com/c3dlr2

"Interpol and police computer checks built up a picture of a junkie, wandering across Germany killing at random for petty cash to feed her drug habit.

Psychiatrist Kurt Kletzer, who profiled incest monster Josef Fritzl said: "Like Fritzl, she is able to project an aura of normalcy while being anything but. She is compelled to murder to feed her habit, thus reducing the victim to the status of a worthless object.

"These psychopathic traits would have been formed at a very early age.

I would venture that the police are looking for someone from a damaged home life, perhaps a foster child or orphan, a child who was abused or whose carers were addicts.""

Complete bollocks.

So much for blind faith in DNA evidence.

Without it,, they would (rightly) have investigated many crimes as totally unrelated, and likely solved some of them.

I've now looked at earlier press reports and wish I'd read about this much earlier. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but I'm convinced I'd have realised the truth without it.

Apart from the DNA there was ample evidence that there was no serial killer/criminal.

[Sherlock Holmes] Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. [/Sherlock Holmes]

Lego?

We want a Playmobil version.

One small step for a bat.

A giant leap for batkind.

Am I the first

to welcome our new genocidal alien overlord Xenu?

I suppose the zoo has checked properly.

Unlike the Japanese one reported here.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/27/polar_bear_breeding/

Re: I smell twatshite

It appears in Beowulf

"WENT he forth to find at fall of night

that haughty house, and heed wherever

the Ring-Danes, twattendang, to rest had gone."

Re A really good bit of kit and it's CHEAP

It's certainly cheap compared to the £1000 Freesat HD/Blu-Ray recorder that Panasonic are bringing out in May.

http://tinyurl.com/dnal5q

And you can stick a 1TB hard disk in the Humax.

"according to a study by security firm Damballa."

What was that Mandy Rice-Davies quote, again?

Never mind.

If they've nothing to hide, they've nothing to fear.

Well I for one

am not a Lesbian.

Titled

At least he won't roll out of bed.

@ 12 Weeks?

"For a maximum sentence of 14 years, how such a low sentence for causing death by dangerous driving?"

The man who died had been drinking, crashed his car late at night on an unlit motorway, and left it lying across two lanes without lights. And had he not returned to it to retrieve his mobile phone, he wouldn't have died. Another driver clipped the crashed car's mirror, and a third hit the central reservation while avoiding the crashed car.

Ahmed wasn't responsible for the death, and convicted only for the unrelated dangerous driving.

@ Better, Cheaper and Faster?

Vandenberg is used for launches into polar orbit as they can launch south over water. For safety reasons and nothing to do with politics. A polar orbit was needed so the satellite could cover the whole planet.