Whitey Grandad

As the archaeologists say, 'absence of evidence is not evidence of absence'.

Do you also find that policeman are looking younger? If so... http://www.saga.co.uk (If you're also feeling tired there's a nap for that)

Now you're getting to the essence of it. Are you sure it's the same consciousness? It's all an illusion. Our understanding of the world around us is merely a puny attempt by our conscious mind to see some pattern in it all, to make some meaning out of everything. The meaning of life is life itself. Without life nor all the seas nor all the stars in the firmament would ebb and flow and shine twinkle for nothing. My interpretation is that the stars and galaxies are there so that we may know that there is more than we can experience in our own parochial lives. As far as we know human beings are the only creature in this world that can look at the night sky and wonder. Whether you wish to credit God with all this is down to your own personal credo. Either way, it is there to be marvelled, to be experienced, to be investigated and explored. The rest is silence (Hamlet again).

ANd yet, for us, it exists. It would indeed be a sad day if ever we did understand it completly, for then our lives would hold little meaning.

It's all in Hamlet... 'There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.' ''There's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will.'

We also lost the home game against Chelsea, which was good for me.

Yeah, right, that one and all the other thousands of decisons over the course of the season, for and against.

Van Persie for Man Utd?

I don't think that's correct. I don't come from either of those places.

He's a great player. I look forward to seeing him when he kicks on next season now that he has had a bit of time to settle in.

Indeed, but there's no point in a better playing style if players are going to fall over and concede goals because of it. It always seems to be our players that do this.

I think it's more a question of being certain which division we're in, which may also have had a bearing on Cortese's situation.

But I presume they don't have numbered seats there?

No surprise, really, we knew this all along.

I think that we deserve an explanation at the very least. Bring out the bear! Is there no Habeas Ursus in this fair land of ours? This is indeed a sad day for justice

It's unbearable without him.

Amen to that. He will not be forgotten.

Don't be coy, Phil, does the number at the top of his list have a Dubai area code?

An incredible story of unbelievable heroism. What is surprising is how little is known about it in the wider world.

All still in Swiss probate, I believe.

How does this affect the number of English teams in next year's competition?

You'd hope so but in this case there are so many factors involved it must be very difficult to separate their influences. Nicotine or cannabis, I value my lungs far too much to ever have tried either.

It could just be that those who stop smoking pig out instead and get obese?

Not really you were very close, as the Duke of Wellington said: "It has been a damn nice thing-the nearest run thing you ever saw..."

I think you'll find 'f#cking' is a gerund.