The spear thing - don't forget the modern javelin has been lightened over the years to stop be being thrown out of the stadium.

I'm not a horror film watcher - what's the one about ghost-boats?

It may be a new implementation, but the idea isn't new - there have been pneumatic solutions to the same problem for a decade or more.

I paid $2.

That carpet in #2 would have to go.

We make treacle toffee and cheesy bats (cheese straw recipe cut out with a bat-shaped cutter). The toffee is a bit of an accquired taste - some kids come back for more, some chuck it away and we find it days later gently deliquescing and looking remarkable like a dying slug.

I won't shop at Morrisons (where the bananas come from) because of just this sort of thing. They shrink-wrap red peppers and once, coconuts. Their loose bananas come on a plastic hook that weighs more than a plastic bag - but it /looks/ less.

Must be different in the UK - every time I've hit an animal I've always stopped to see if it's OK - though in most cases it's very dead.

Gas oven, Shirley? But yes, that's exactly what I thought, too.

Uncanny canyon, I'd say.

Another in Neatorama's occasional series about how tacky conspicuous consumption is!

That really is startlingly gross, isn't it?

Cool cat!

If she's a riveter, why's she doing up big nuts with a spanner?

I never realised the Rotork Sea Truck was one of his. I had a go in one, once. Smashing thing provided you don't shut the throttles too suddenly at speed and get swamped as the wash overtakes you through the rear windows.

"Whom you poke", Shirley?