Say it aint so

French electropop titan Jean-Michel Jarre - a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador - will also be lending his talents as the race's "artistic director".

Please god no. Anything but him.

Zappa

I think Frank Zappa write a song called 'Bobby Brown' which contained the immortal line 'I can take about an hour on the tower of power.

Nope

Urgh. Early contender for most pointless rebrand of the year, especially if they redo all their shopfronts and instore promo stuff . Its not as if its hard to spot their store on a high street or in an airport or wherever, its the one with books in the windows.

Mobility solution

The entire system could be carried by a team of several elephants, but even a great white shark would struggle with it.

Perhaps some kind of ill-tempered, mutated albino whale might be in order. ®

Sorted, Gordon Brown will be available soon.

One thing

Unlike the Skippys, one thing the French wont do is try to ban small breasted women from the Internet.

Please stop

Please stop all these horrible explicit posts, please. Wont someone think the effect they might have on poor Skippy.

dem things

'One Reg hack thought he saw a pair of two wheel ploddies patrolling Dublin airport last year, but he was very very hungover at the time'.

Bladdered or not, yer man was right. The Gardai have indeed been using Segways at Dublin airport recently. They do look like feckin eejits mind.

Photography

Better news is that organisers aren't going to spend a fortune trying to stop spectators taking snaps of the games.

Pity, the subsequent mass riots in the staium would have probably been more watchable than a lot of the events.

I guess

I guess whoever dreamt this up closes their eyes every time they walk past one of those newsstands that are eveywhere in Spain. Thats the only way they won't see the eye watering range and variety of porn mags on display.

maybe

Maybe the goat turned down ITV because its hoping to get the Woss slot thats up for grabs over on the BBC.

Silent night

Silent Night by the Dickies. No namby pamby warbling there.

Ugh

Nasty site. Looking at my home town, the address of someone listed on the site as a 'pervert' can be narrowed down to a short sidestreet with maybe 8-10 houses in it. Not too hard for some knuckle dragging vigilante/s to narrow it down from there.

Also like others I spotted a couple of 'terrorists' who were acquitted or who are still awaiting trial.

Oil

"He concluded by saying that the US "remains committed" to working with Baku on democratic reforms"

As in they have lots of oil so lets not piss them off too much.

Difference?

So what's the difference between a phantom hooker and a real one, and which gives more bang for the buck?

I think we should be told.

ok....

Leo Sayer on the other side of the planet? There is a God after all.

standard measure?

"normal human farts"

So is there a universal standard fart measurement now?

If

If the US government says no to the porn industry, will it then go tits up?

@Now for some more completly uneducated responses (just like all those above)

The Cornish huh? No problem, blow all the bridges over the Tamar and ban the sale of pasties. Sorted.

Anonymous cowards day?

Is this international anonymous cowards day or somesuch? The place is infested with them.

Not Nulab for once

Actually for once this lunacy isnt down to NuLab, Lewes is Liberal Democrat council.

Must have....

I'm up for it so long as they still serve chilled Chrunchie Bars like they did on the Gatwick-Antigua flights.

@MYOFB

'Short and Sweet . . . For NOW!! I WILL be back!!'

Why?

Lemon Incest????????

Lemon Incest? Well the French for you, dissolute cheese eating fornication monkeys. Brits prefer their heroes clean limbed and clean living, Keith Richards springs to mind.

Me too

Although there are serious problems with current & proposed future land AFV's in respect of their effectiveness, one thing that aircraft and helos are terminally useless at is the taking and holding of ground areas.

If the UK wants to have a military strategy involves the taking and holding of ground or defending it does actually need people & kit to do that. If it doesnt, no problem, but that decision may bite back.

No worries

No worries, Aussies wanting to escape this nonsense can always move to a more civilized country like New Zealand.......

What?

What is sex?

pah

This is what you get for messing around trying to use high tech solutions. All major Political elections should be decided Butch Cassidy style by a knife fight and/or a kick in the balls.

"uncommanded rollback"

"Uncommanded rollback". Why can't they just say an engine stopped working?

Jacqui promotes police handhelds

They already have them handheld thingies, truncheons, tasers, pepper sprays etc. Why do they need more?

Old hippie says

It's too much hassle to read this & I can't get my head together about this stuff because it is a real bringdown and it freaks me out because there is a lot of bad karma in there man. The way straight people talk is just so uncool.

Exit?

Looks like the 'Auroura' project revisited. For sure and there all sorts of exciting high tech possibilities for getting the supertroopers into someplace coventional transports & helos cant reach, but you still have to get them out, probably with angry locals running around waving portable SAM's all over the place. How is this thing supposed to do that?

embedded

Given the amount of online shagging that seems to go on in Second Life, the concept of an embedded reporter is entirely appropriate.

@linking to the list

Urgh.....half the world and their dogs already knew where to find copies of the list.