As a UK resident I've personally found the towns/villages of Hope ("Well, we live in Hope.") and Clowne, both in Derbyshire.

Clowne even has a fire station - with a sign outside saying "Clowne Fire Station". I was laughing too hard to take a picture.

Regardless of whether you believe astrology works or not, it is a provable fact that this "new" system of astrology has been around for a long, long time. Oliver's "1940's" sounds about right; certainly since the sixties.

So, I wonder why the internet is full of it today. (Of course, the internet is full of it every day... sorry, I never could resist an old joke.)

...and then he opens the beer and 80% of the contents of the can get evenly distributed across the ceiling.

I think I'll walk to the fridge. (And get a proper lager, in a bottle.)

I bet the Mac version is way cooler... ;)

The cat's in little danger since it could leave. The kid does not know any better. But I would thump the parent if that had happened in front of me.

"no danger to cat" is not the same as "not mistreating cat".

Eat people or die of starvation? Of course I'd eat people. So would 90% of the rest of the planet.

And if everyone else was doing it, you probably wouldn't even find it yeuchy. It's a monkey society.

I disabled my caps lock key years ago. I was only ever hitting it by accident.

@Jessss:

I'm not "mixed up". I just see things differently than you.

@Jessss:

Of course not. But that's not how the child sees it. The child only gets love from the parent if he behaves. That's conditional. How many parents can tell their child off for doing something naughty and show love at the same time? I know I can't.

Unconditional love is asking: "I crashed the car again. Can I have a hug?" and getting the answer "yes". That's not an appropriate parent-child relationship, unfortunately.

Um, sorry, all I hear is an American accent.

Similar research here in the UK suggested that the likely accent prevalent in London at the time would have been closer to our Birmingham accent, which is completely different to the above.

For reference, here's a comedian with a Brummy accent: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI95r6nzVZ0

I find it a rather odd idea that love between a mother and child is unconditional. At least as the child understands it, it's highly conditional: if he or she misbehaves, mother will be cross.

Surely love is only unconditional when both parties understand that they get love no matter what they do?

Unconditional love is pretty rare. As a kid I got it from my grandmother; I have it from a couple of friends as an adult. I consider myself lucky.

Sounds as if someone has been watching old episodes of Thunderbirds.

After over forty years, it's about time someone tried to make that work...

I'm dubious. I'm embarrassed enough about my beer belly; seeing a manikin swell out to look "just like me" would put me off ever going into the changing room again...

I've somehow managed to turn off Google Instant and I can't seem to turn in on.

However, in the new Google Scribe, if I type "an egg-basket in a" the fourth suggestion is "centrifuge" (thus completing the name of my blog). Good enough for me.

It seems just as likely to me that some entries on this list should instead be on "ten most bloodthirsty soldiers of all time"; or maybe "ten soldiers driven most obviously insane by the horrors of war".

Reader's choice. We are unlikely to actually know, after all.