Funny, I thought it had derived from French/Latin 'et', 'ET', 'Et'.. I can kindof see how that eventually became &.

You learn something new every day :)

Oh God. In order to be 'safe' I'm now supposed to insert a rather uncomfortable-looking device such as this into myself? Can one not just walk a different way?

Rapes by strangers are remarkably rare - most perpetrators are people already well known to the victim.

I did mean the Last Post, yes! Oops.

@rod No, I didn't, but there are many British schools who took the same trip for sure (having spoken to friends & acquaintances I've made since school), and I imagine many others all across Europe. Definitely worthwhile.

Many a soggy-eyed moment, when you see grave upon grave upon grave upon grave and name upon name upon name... And then you realise the ones whose bodies have actually been found, and whose names have actually been etched onto that particular memorial are only a drop in the ocean - ouch. I've even got a lump in my throat typing this.

Skipweasel I'm amazed anyone survived the Somme, we were like target practice for the German artillery.

We did a small recreation of the Somme on a school battlefields trip to Belgium when I was about 14 (about 50 of us crossed a field, each representing say 1,000 soldiers, dropping one by one onto the ground of the 'nomansland'). We also visited the big cemeteries and war memorials, heard the Last Stand played by a solitary trumpet at the Menin Gate, and generally learned a lot about the sheer bloody loss of life in WWI.

Every kid should do that trip if they can, IMO. WWI is not to be forgotten.

The thing that remains with me the strongest is the visual difference between the cemeteries of the Allies and the Axis/Germans.

For example:
Tyne Cot, white, 11,908 graves, one stone per body, many only "known unto God": http://www.firstworldwar.com/today/tynecot.htm
Langemarck, black, mass grave of 25,000 bodies under a flower bed: http://www.firstworldwar.com/today/langemarckcemetery.htm

Clearly just a flying Cockchafer (May bug). I hate those things, they fly up out of the grass as you walk across and don't seem to mind getting entangled in your hair, ugh...

If you want to see a more silly version (very well done and "catty" too), try this one from the Last Night of the Proms 1996 - though oddly can only find a version recorded from German TV! I remember watching this live :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp0D8qWyVHo

Oh, is that why Louie Louie's lyrics are so hard to make out?

Surely the most sustainable bottle is one that can be reused, rather than one that is thrown away? How well would this thing hold liquid once opened for the first time?

I guess that's a small hope though, the only bottles that properly get re-used are milk bottles, and even that practice is dying out. How about the old glass coke bottles? Or have they been scrapped?

Not sped up, I've seen people do almost the same routine real-life :)

Black people were allowed to have short little skirts in those days. They didn't need to keep themselves decent, apparently.

Look up "lindy hop" or "swing dancing" on Youtube and be amazed :D There's lots of us lindyhoppers and swing dancers the world over!

Wow, from the white suit of Fred and the synchronised dancing of the gangsters in black who are after him - surely Michael got the whole idea for Smooth Criminal from these films?!

Tara - number 73 made me smile too. Nice name by the way, feels kinda familiar...

A nice list, I must say. Apart from the anti-Euro feeling in number 21... Europe may have been irrelevant to the US some time this century, but not to ourselves...

ANYWAY - thumbs up otherwise, some sensitive stuff in there :)

A good handshake is like a good friendly hug - good contact, a pleasant amount of pressure, not too brief but not lingering to the point of looking like attraction.

Indeed, it's got to be that people more likely to interview well will naturally have better handshakes due to confidence and comfort in themselves. :)

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