Didn’t go to The Dog for dinner after all. An old school friend dropped in on his way from the US to Australia (he runs a superyacht refit business in Florida), and so we went for an Indian, followed by a boozy session at The Dog with some horsey people from the Badminton Horse Trials till 2am. My mate turned up in a Corvette he keeps here is the UK – quite a week for exotic cars.
Phil Nicholas and his Corvette.
Some friends we made at The Dog.I was admiring myself in the bathroom mirror this morning and wondered what the purpose of male nipples is. Every part of the male body (including, surprisingly enough, the brain) serves a purpose – except for the nips. Design fault? Hay informed me that it is because the default position for an embryo is female, with hormones effecting the change to male. I corrected her by telling her it is not a mere change, but a design improvement.
On Friday night we thought we’d see if there was anything worth watching on BBC iPlayer (for non-UK residents, iPlayer enables you to view TV programmes off-line via the internet). The following in a list of the most popular programmes on the BBC last week, which is a sad indictment on the waning level of the British intellect.
1. EastEnders: Thu, 07 May 2009
2. The Apprentice - Series 5: Episode 7
3. My Family - Series 9: 8. The Guru
4. The Apprentice: You're Fired - Series 5: Episode 7
5. Waterloo Road - Series 4: Episode 18
6. Claire Richards: My Big Fat Wedding:
7. Great British Menu - Series 4: Wales Dessert
8. Have I Got News for You - Series 37: Episode 2
9. Crimewatch on the Streets:
Wall-to-wall soaps and so-called reality TV, with the one exception of a news quiz (which has increasingly incorporated canned laughter of late due to the jokes getting worse).
I think I need to liven things up at the office and need some creative ideas. We’ve done the usual things – you know what I mean; filing cabinet scaling, office free-running and all the chair-based sports (synchronised chair spinning, office chair down-hill skiing and office chair regatta). All contributions welcome.
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Jinks: Given up on that. There's no future in it.
Have you read “Why Do Men Have Nipples?” (Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini)? Its humour might appeal to you - and one of the authors is actually a doctor.
Beth: No, but I have got a copy of The X In Sex, which is about chromosomes and their determinant in the sex of a human foetus. I imagine it's the same, but without the humour.
Your friend, dear Chairman, should review his website and check it for spelling errors.
Not that my English is faultless, but I have a reasonable good excuse.
Ah...we horsey people are such fun ;-)
Carolina: I have told him this countless times.
Does he not realise how important a good website is? I was just thinking about refitting my superyacht, but reading his website convinced me that HE is not the one to go to for that ;-)
Oh, and badminton is something involving shuttles and rackets to me. I don't like and I don't do Eventing. Not on purpose anyway.
Carolina: He is, but he gets most of his business by word-of-mouth and turned over $4m last year. Can't argue with that.
Hehe, I offered to check his website for spelling errors at a fee. I've just become a lot more expensive ;-)
He could have turned over 8m. If only.....
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