You don't consider the author of Commentarii de bello Gallico an Italian war hero? He does refer to his home turf throughout as Italia.

Thinnest book: "400 years of German humor"

I remember having a discussion about feminist tech in the 1980s. The proponent of feminist tech derided oppressive, masculinist, logic. He was also a computer programmer. So I asked him what a feminist "do" loop looked like.

Islam's greatest invention is distilled alcohol. The book may be thin, but it beats the tar out of any feminist technology you could name.

Gerard left out that triumph of Islamic technology, the buzzing prayer rug.

Speaking as a man who has know a lot of Pets of the Month I can say that Arthur doesn't know a scintilla of an iota of a jot of what he's talking about.

Ignorance, in this case, is not bliss.

Tumblr - brilliant! I started one today and have stuck on my site as a sidebar, like you! Amazing how useful it is to capture stuff I'd like to blog about but don't have the time.

Thanks for the final push that got me off my behind and onto Tumblr! I too will stick it on the sidebar of my old stick-in-the-mud Blogger...we'll see if it completely replaces that in the future.

Shouldn't that be: "Put that up your pipe and open it. Wide."