Whitey Grandad

Not memories of them, but when I used to work at the IBA at Crawley we used to hire the tennis courts at Heath House (where the Dockers used to live) at lunchtime. There was an indoor swimming pool alongside which was decorated in traditional 1950s kitsch, complete with bar and turquoise tiling and had once been the scene of riotous partying. If the ladies were not around we would finish after the games with a spot of skinny-dipping.

That could be a plan. Sign all the good players from all our promotion rivals. Simples.

Just a reminder peeps... there will be no bus services on Saturday, so it's train, car or walkies.

I thought pawns were in chess ??? Oh I get it now

Absolutely. How can they complain about a small squad when they have players out on loan?

Either that or he's been reading these pages

Rule number one: 'don't get found out'.

The victorians called it phrenology, but they were looking for criminals.

Only if he had joined us at the start of the season?

I suspect we were taught phlogiston in order to help us to realise that scientific theories are fluid. They are only useful to the extent that they model activities and events in the world around us and enable us to predict the outcome of our actions. When they start failing to do that then it's time to get new ones. I'm not disagreeing about the space shots, just pointing out that there are both theoretical and practical solutions to the same objectives.

The Second World War changed everything. Afterwards we were broke and the countries we controlled had earned their independence.

There is no real theory for gravity. Its origins are not understood in the least. Neither is magnetism really, which brings me on to the other big potential cataclysm, the reversal of the earth's magnetic field which is showing some signs of taking place now. That really is a big unknown.

Well, there is a very long list of discredited scientific theories including the phlogiston one which I was taught at school, God alone knows why. As for the moon landings, there was some talk in the sixties that the Russians needed less mid-course corrections because their mathematicians were better at solving differential equations than the Americans who used iterative solutions generated by their more powerful computers. At the speeds involved, Newtonian mechanics were accurate enough.

If it's turkey curry for lunch then by definition it must be Boxing Day.

Technically it is a hypothesis until proven. Then when it is widely accepted it becomes a theory until disproven. The winters in Britain have been getting colder, yet the world has been slowly warming up. There is some evidence that the rate of rise has slowed in recent years. The earth has certainly been far warmer many times in its history and has often been completely ice-free. CO2 levels are higher than they have ever been in the last 20million years, and the lowest they have ever been if you look back longer than 50million years. They were 10 times higher during the time of the dinosaurs.

I think they would all accept that without reservation. The earth's climate has varied wildly in the past but the important question is of course whether, and if so, by how much, we are affecting the climate of the future.

Come on, let's finish these off and then we can get on with the holiday!

31) The 1 P Club (Deal or No Deal) whatever that is.

96) is Judges on Strictly Come Dancing, but I hate that programme with a vengeance so someone else can name them please.

I humbly beg your pardon, and I, er, also refer you to post 62.

44) 42, Eight Less Than Fifty

86) 20 Shillings in a Pound (Before Decimalisation)

87) 1471, Number of Last Caller (Phone) ???

I'm a bit of both, to tell the truth.

Especially not Verbal. We don't want a world filled with yes-men, do we Dune?