@coldfish:

Disagree. Amateur video usually looks much worse than that, in fact.

On the other hand I think that the whole thing was too quick and practiced, and the bailee was deliberately playing for laughs for the camera -- doing so well enough that it seems quite likely that this will turn up as a sketch in a comedy show soon.

You can't tell from this distance, of course, but I concur with msbutah; that could easily be Matt Lucas.

It's not that we don't like the Daily Mail. (I mean, we don't, but that's not it.)

It's that the fact this story was in the Daily Mail, substantially reduces the probability of it being accurate...

"Oh no. It's ... a Windows Vista Logo."

Excuse me, I should know better than to put angle brackets in a comment box.

I was trying to say something like:

love /love hate /hate, surely.

Insert your own angle brackets.

akkk! Malformed XML!!

, surely.

"Time is an illusion; lunchtime doubly so" -- Douglas Adams.

Personally: you can't quantize time because it's not constant. It goes slower if I speed up. (See Einstein for details.)

"Guinea Pigs For Sale. Free To A Good Home."

Presumably you can still do that? Can the law actually stop you from giving pets away for free -- without making the pets themselves illegal?

If it does, then "draconian" just got a new "best practice" example.
But if it doesn't, then it doesn't solve the problem...

Surely the problem is that he's not the quintessential American -- but, instead, the quintessential New Yorker? The accent, the wit, the attitude...

(Speaking as a citizen of another country entirely, who can't possibly know what he is talking about.)

We've known four cats that were trained to cope with a lead/leash. One of them is ours: she can go outside on her own, normally, but it means she can go on holiday with us.

I can't really say you take a cat for a walk like a dog. She leads, you follow. But it's doable. As Darktan says, if you start when they are young, they cope quite well with it.

Well, there had to be one. (Trust me, henges in the UK come in packs of two.)

Nice that they finally found it after all this time looking for it.

James Joyce -- James Joyce -- Steven King. That's three goes of two paragraphs from the same story.

Shenanigans or not, I certainly don't write anything like James Joyce. (In fact the whole story was an attempt to write in the style of Roger Zelazny, but whether I succeeded is another thing entirely.)

Ignore this. It's of no use.

Also, incomprehensible tannoy announcements. And for true verisimilitude, how about a broken vending machine?

Rats.

It was in the UK papers -- exactly the same layout and picture -- maybe, three years ago?

That I like.