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It's probably better told aloud, VVO, when you can put a bit of emphasis on min-u-et!

Nothing can 'lighten' what happened to the people, can it? But perhaps it helps us to deal with things which are so ENORMOUS in their horror, by reducing the perpetrators, making them small by ridiculing them. Otherwise, the alternative is to probably go totally out of our collective minds...

Oh, right: Feltham Novices' Chase, 2009: WON. Kingmaker Novices' Chase, 2010: WON RSA Chase 2010: 3rd Paddy Power Gold Cup 2010: 3rd King Geo VI Chase 2011: WON Cheltenham Gold Cup 2011: WON Yes, I can see why Robert Waley-Cohen puts his son up, all right! What sort of...

I saw the first Breaking Bad shows and enjoyed it a bunch, and yes, the setting is absolutely gorgeous-looking - something different for us over here. I'll have to buy another DVD player now - I gave the previous one away after never using it, but from March I'm out of a cable area and I'm...

And he speaks so well of you, Grayson! It's so long since I put up a joke, I can't remember if this is already on the board or not: Way down in Tennessee, ole Hank and Martha are sitting out on the verandah in their rocking chairs, watching the sun go down, sippin' their mint juleps. A...

Which is the 'disgusting little nation' - Greece or Germany? Did you mean Boomerang, not Boomernag? (I know, it's a horse-racing forum, and the subject tends to get into everything!) :D Wossit about, anyway?

Grassy, no, you've got me all wrong. I put up some ghastly examples of what I think are not funny 'jokes' because they lack humanity, or empathy with human tragedy. I see how police, the military and emergency services personnel - in fact, anyone connected to the awfulness of the ways we...

CUE CARD won't be a serious contender against any of that lot unless he gets some jumps schooling from someone like Yogi Breisner. As I said pages and pages back, he gets in tight at all of his fences and seems to be incapable of the flowing style of SPRINTER SACRE. AL FEROF is a neat and tidy...

Glacons for ice cubes, verglas for sheet ice on roads and surfaces and stuff like wot I described, and glace for frozen- sorry about the lack of pronunciation marks! And then there are glaciers... and glacial looks... which is probably what Miesque is giving us now... :lol:

Certainly a very attractive horse - big shame and condolences to his connections, GC.

Fair dinkum, cobber! It seems very wrong to not include the person who's going to be responsible for announcing all of an organisation's various edicts. You'd think the BHA nabobs would want Struthers to attend so that he could truthfully and fully answer questions about how the decisions came...

Thynetocatcher sadly fell And sent her punters' bets to hell, And as for the Bumper's Mrs Trair, She was at the races, but 'never there'. So more like this from our man The Foot Will see him quickly get The Boot - The Rabbit's horse so badly flopping Might see that tipster sent off hopping...

So who's using the speed gene test to determine their breeding programmes? I wouldn't be surprised about Shetlands being fast - I was chatting to Jemma Marshall before her winning ride at Lingfield today about being on blind bolters, and said the worst and by far the fastest I was ever on...

Ta, Bets. I saw a documentary a year or so ago about Iranian girls doing rap, and some of the bands that perform out of sight of the mullahs. Amazing how so much has to be 'underground' in fundamentalist countries, like being gay, dancing, singing, making films, socially mixing with the...

I see RINGSEND ROSE is an owner/trainer combo, which would make the post-race discussion rather interesting! "Okay, Mr Sadik, do you think she's worth another try?" "Well, frankly, Mr Sadik, she's not much good, but she helps to keep my trainer's permit valid!"

The Awards bash is held in December of each year, I think, so that it reflects a full year of racing. This one, as the title suggests, was held last month, in 2011.

Miesque - remind me not to have you mix my drinks if you think I want chunks of verglas in my G&T. Back to mixology classes for you!

I'm a bit sorry Outstanding Older Horse didn't go to THE TATLING, though! Perhaps there should be an Outstanding OAP award next year, and perhaps special awards to those horses who, like darling-sweetheart-cutie-pie KINKEEL, get safely round 100 chases/hurdles/flat runs. The Ton-Up Club Award...

That would leave the UK shy of the bigger blast by about 250 miles. Thanks, I've always wanted to glow in the dark.

That is Trudi wearing it... few people know about her specialist part-time work...