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Paul

That was interesting - the only punishment our prefects could give were lines.

Chrise

I remember Nabarro. The quotation is interesting as he was MP for Worcester. I dont know if that was where the sauce came in.

Paul

Nice stories - glad you survived your ordeal and learned from it! Pleased to say we had no corporal punishment.

Chrise - they were Daimlers.

thanks orson. the "why" question remains, though!

jono

Congratulations on qualifying for the semi-final of Masterchef. Your bone marrow creme brulee looked delicious. Bone marrow steak and kidney pie is a favourite of mine.

Ha! Thanks for the thought Grunger, sneaked through in third place. I recall one of the critics’s described that desert as ‘half exquisite pudding, half practical joke’! I like the sound of it though

jono

I think the humour of the dish led Grunger to assume it was you. As for the critic who hated it, because of the dripping running down her neck, well, some of us were brought up on bread and dripping.

The critic who hated Jono's dish turned up last night on BBC4 presenting a programme about dancers from the last 50 years. She clearly knows as little about dancing as food, as she did not rate Pan's People, who as everyone knows, were the best dancers ever.

Although I liked the clue, I thought 14A in the Times today was wrong.

"....brief fancy panties" should be ".... fancy brief panties" as "panties" is chopped then anagrammed.

It would also read better as the garment is "brief panties" (briefs) which can be preceded by an adjective, fancy, lacy, black etc.

Just been incensed by the last question in tonight's University Challenge:
"How many atoms are there in a molecule of sodium bicarbonate?"

a) it's ionic, so doesn't contain molecules
b) its correct name has been sodium hydrogencarbonate for about 60 years