So did the VFW gig happen the next year?

I guess it would help with the head-spinning, but otherwise wearing a yarmulke doesn't realy work with break dancing.

Armagh

Did this make anyone else think of Kiki, from Sluggy Freelance?

For the non-Americans amongst us, who the --- is Dougie?

Yoda?
"Hmmm, public enemy no. 1 not I am"

According to Wikipedia, it was Jack, not Scott Whittingham that fell out with Fleming over Thunderball, and it was NSNA, a rehash of Thunderball, that was produced as a result, although that was after Whittingham's death.
Oh, and also, it's Gerard, not Gerald Butler.
Other than that, great article :-)

Didn't Tracey Emin have this idea about 10 years ago?

How about something other than a Sudoku next week?

They're actually recreating MM II and III, not the original

"chopped his way from room to room as lava rushed after him"

Sounds good, but I don't believe lava came anywhere near the city. It was all ash and pyroclastic flow

I'm sure I read about this years ago!

So it's an elephant-relative on a turtle? Where's the discworld?