St Landrew

Shall I move it to General Sports or will you, mate..?

I'm looking at the highlights at present, and whilst it may be exciting for those involved, there isn't a lot of quality on show.

Radio One

Lighten up mate, I was only kidding.

We won in the same way that Alan Davies wins on QI.

I think the UK feels like Arizona's avatar. Only without the erection.

Give us those bloody Spitfires back..! Or were they Hurricanes..?

This is a bit embarrassing. I still think Take That need to be dusted off. Perhaps someone can wheel Robbie Williams out..? They'd cancel the contest and just hand over the trophy.

The Estonian claims to be a singer..! Yes, I chuckled.

The Three Tuns, I believe. Or the Tudor Rose. Or... actually, I'm not at all sure.

Oh..! Then how did a few of the groups issue albums in their own countries then..?

Looking at those groups, I don't know why the UK doesn't just go and ask Gary Barlow to write a song and get Take That to perform it. It probably wouldn't be to my taste, but the UK would walk the contest.

http://www.airdisaster.com/cgi-bin/view_manu_details.cgi?aircraft=DC-10 Looked at your link, Arizona. I remember when I lived in NZ, in the early 90's, that the Mt Erebus crash had a day of memory. Can you imagine the horror if anyone survived that crash for even a short time..? If memory serves, they all died instantly.

Tbf, I was slightly unfairly commenting on the TU-144, although it was said to suffer from many dodgy design compromises, in order to stay in the political lead, if not the technical one, in front of Concorde.

Why are France there..? I thought they handballed... oh..!

That last stunt performed by the Norwegian preenter was a bit naff, but he still did it quite well.

Plus the Tu-144 dropped out of the sky quite well too. Did I read somewhere, not too long ago, that NASA are using them for flight tests..?

Y'know Vectis... you're much older than I imagined. That's a joke written by the chap in your avatar.

Oh I see. OK, good thinking. I immediately jumped to the more obvious conclusion. As for the World Cup and England or... I'd take Saints any, and every, time. Complete no brainer.

Pretty good is a relative phrase, mate. Pretty good for a DC-10, is still pretty awful.

Of course, it was grounded because it picked up a piece of metal, that had fallen, from that well known junk heap and serial passenger killer, the McDonnell-Douglas DC10, which should have been grounded decades before.

Do make a decision on this peeps, because it may become crucial whether I buy a season ticket or not. In fact, it may be crucial whether I ever turn up at St Marys again or not.

Roxy Music

There's that old story of the Concorde giving a particular Boeing 747 two hours start, from Heathrow, across the Atlantic. On landing at JFK, someone enquired about the particular 747, only to be told that it was just over halfway across. What a step backwards, since 2003.

About 12 years back, while working as a manager in a Comet store in Ashford, Kent, a bloke walked in and ended up buying a kettle. He paid cash, so I asked him his name for the receipt. He grinned at me. I asked again and he said he was Mr Robert Mortimer. I looked over his shoulder and standing behind was Mr Vic Reeves [Jim Moir]. Now there's a couple of comedy names.