Verbal

You've forgotten the toughest work-out of all - ordering your caddy to give you the right stick.

That's true. I now believe you.

Handicap? (And the answer's not 'yes'.)

That Gordon Taylor is a smart fellow. Never misses a trick.

I can only assume that Wotte is addicted to the frisson of wondering if he's going to get paid at the end of the month. First us, now them.

Thanks, Phil Faraj.

Dead fish walking.

Yes. I bet she's thinking he's quite a catch though.

But he only stopped posting after Roman told all. Fishier still.

Plant.

He was outed by Roman.

Muppet, n'est-ce pas?

Well, we'll never know, will we. There was an interesting book about Eichmann written a couple of years ago by David Cesarani, called 'Becoming Eichmann', which substantially revised the received view that senior Nazis were in essence evil, and from disturbed backgrounds. Nazis like Eichmann were actually disturbingly ordinary - rather like the disturbingly ordinary people who offer their sheeplike support and votes to neo-Nazi parties like the BNP and the many, similarly violent far-Right parties across Europe. Eichmann is a hero to the more vociferous of these idiots. He would be less so if he had renounced his savage past. But as I say, we'll never know...

As someone who's against the death penalty, I'd have to say that not even his crimes (if he's found guilty) should lead to a death sentence. I'd also have wanted Eichmann not to have been executed by the Israelis, nor Goering and the others by the Nuremburg Trials. In my opinion, they would have had far greater deterrent value alive than dead, and could have reflected on their crimes in ways that would really have had impact outside of their prison walls. Demjanjuk is shamming. He's done it before.

I know who you're thinking of - that sensible chap in Dr Strangelove who rides an atom bomb from his B-52, yee-hawing to oblivion.

That's true - which means you have to try playing Pachinko in the arcades (utterly pointless but addictive), and watching Japanese take Karaoke way too seriously. If you want to eat cheaply, stick to noodle shops (and learn to live with the slurping), or if you go to a fancy restaurant, make sure it's one that has plastic versions of the meals in the front windows, because there won't be any English translations on the menu. You could also try whale meat, to annoy your beanbag friends back home, and breakfast at Tsukiji fish market - the biggest and most exotic in the world - is brilliant. The 'fun' neighbourhood is Shinjuku - but watch out for (among other things!) the price of beer in those hostess bars. (Better anyway to drink hot saki, which better than anywhere, naturally) And if you're serious about drinking, it's amazingly easy to get your own beerglass behind the counter at surprisingly friendly neighbourhood bars. The subways are completely unintelligible. Make sure you're with a Japanese speaker - although there's no need to be sober, because the subways stations employ people especially to catch drunk salarymen falling on to the track.

Verbal's Iron Law will apply, which states: We'll be underwhelmed by the draw.

So the police arrive and find Tiger lying on the ground next to his damaged 4x4, with his wife hovering over him with a golf club...after reports he had 'met' someone in a nightclub. Possibly not a regular kind of accident at all.

He hasn't got any flats. Just a pile of brochures.

I was having a general moan. Your post was just in the line of fire.

Next time the Saints Forum first Eleven Spelling Bee swings into action, can someone please have the bloody courtesy to PM me? I hate missing these events.

I preferred the old, exploding delldays. Whatever happened to him?

I'm stumped. Apple doesn't make other mp3 players.

I don't think they'll need anything like 40 points to be safe. But they won't get 30 either, so no need to get the calculator out again.