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A Christmas Story "THE NATIVITY PLAY." Having been born on the feast day of Our Lady, and being baptised Mary Teresa Bernadette, I always felt that I was more than qualified to play the Virgin Mary in the School's Nativity Play. But every year it was the same thing, some sweet little...

Robert May was a short man, barely five feet in height. He was born in the early part of the last century, that is to say, the nineteen hundreds. Bullied at school, he was ridiculed and humiliated by other children because he was smaller than other boys of the same age. Even as he grew up...

BBC News A chemical in cocoa could soon be turned into a medicine for persistent cough, researchers claim. Scientists are carrying out the final stages of clinical trials of a drug that contains theobromine, an ingredient found in chocolate and cocoa. The UK developers say the drug...

Chefs Battle Over World's Tallest Chocolate Christmas Tree A chocolate arms race is heating up this holiday season as two French chocolatiers vie for recognition as creators of the world's tallest chocolate Christmas tree. The Yuletide rivalry began in 2007 when chef Alain Roby, 54...

BBC News Dec 24 The only person to visit Wikileaks suspect Pte Bradley Manning in custody other than his lawyer says his health has declined in the past four months. Pte Manning, a US soldier, is being held in solitary confinement in a high-security military prison at Quantico marine base...

I saw this the other day on the BBC News, but could not find any further News on this story yesterday, I would have thought there would have been quite a hullabaloo about this. All I have been able to find since that report is this .... Humberside Police helped train Bangladeshi 'death...

BBC News dec 25 Whether it's a candle-lit carol service or a rather more raucous evening of karaoke down the pub, many people will enjoy a good old singsong this Christmas. But belting out "Hark! the herald angels sing" or your own unique interpretation of "I will survive" will not just...

Happy Christmas morning wherever you are ..... If you are on the road, please go carefully. Kentucky seems to have more cars in ditches than on the road right now :eek: Take Care

Ppl tend to buy cos of the name and I think Peer pressure too. So yes, I expected it to be a hot game, but its the endurance of the game that proves if its a good one or not. Ppl that would normally play the campaign (like me :p) before going on mp are the one's that were sorely...

No, No, Not Rudolph :eek::eek: Maybe he should have joined in all the other reindeer games afterall :D

BBC News Dec 24 US sanctions tend to be riddled with exceptions that are neither humanitarian nor democracy-related, a former US sanctions official has said. Stuart Eizenstat, a deputy treasury secretary in the Clinton era, told the BBC World Service that such loopholes were created by...

Thanks for that - Loved the way you said "for men this year" :D What I have noticed, from my friends list on xbox, is that the folks who got the game when it was first released are now starting to go back onto their other games. Always a sign that the game is not compelling. Black Op's is...

Taylor to Houston Thank you all at Load 1 have a great Christmas :D

I think Moots got you there Turtle - proof positive ROFL :D Loved the bit about the NC Squirrel and the Vine that ate the South :D:D

Ah hah back at ya :D

ROFL - Too funny :p - well done LOL :D

That would be : End Cretaceous, End Triassic, End Permian, Late Devonian, and End Ordovician That would be NASA Scientists .... "Correlations between rising CO2 levels and global surface temperatures suggest that our planet is on a one-way warming trend triggered by human activity" I...

Sky News The world's food crisis could be eased if Westerners included insects in their diet to make up some of their protein needs, according to a Dutch scientist. The world's food crisis could be eased if Westerners included insects in their diet to make up some of their protein needs...

Sky News Dec 23 Millions of children will be able to track Santa Claus this Christmas Eve as he travels round the world delivering presents Using Santa Cams in cities along his journey, the tracker - which goes live at 9am - allows youngsters to monitor his progress on the internet or...

You seem to have not included all of my quote there Moot LOL "Is "man" interfering with "nature" for his own gain? In this case oil, another case elsewhere could be logging and so on and soforth ....."