>>>>>According to the news at lunch time today, Saddam Hussein is due to be executed at 4 p.m. EST today. There goes another great humanitarian. (wiping tears from eyes)
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>>>>How come no one clammers for Mugabe to be offed? To me he's one of the most evil men of the last 100 years, up there with Mao and Stalin - the crimes he continues to perpetrate against his own citizens, and the deliberate destruction of his country's economy, reducing his people to peniary.
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>>>Agreed. Saddam was far from the first or last brutal dictator. Too bad we can't be rid of them all without a horrible price.
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>>>So how was the 'oliday?
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>>It all went it what seemed like a week. Didn't go far - just to a youth hostel on the Sussex Downs, with many of my partner's extended family for 4 days over Xmas. Then my mother came visit and was here till yesterday. Apart from that I went to a good solstice party on the 21st. So not bad, but not great.
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>>(We have to reserve annual leave for the Xmas shut down, and I had 2 days to use or lose. That, along with the bank hols gave me a nice long break - but tiring as I never got a good night's sleep, and now my eyes are on my chin strap)
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>>Fat Boy Slim did a big bash on the beach here yesterday (Brighton's his home town) but this time not free like the others, £30 a ticket - and they were all sold out within an hour. They put barriers up so no-one else could see or hear the gig. I was pleased that yesterday was heavy, icy freezing rain - sour grapes! :-)
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>>Thanks
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>>How were your few days?
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>Nice if unspectacular. The girls were here for most of Christmas weekend and then there was a bonus visit from Allie this weekend. Everyone here is well.
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>Throwing this question to the jury: are we now in the year twenty oh seven or the year two thousand and seven?

Well as we say "nineteen-o-eight" I see nothing wrong with "twenty-o-seven". I'm all for saving syllables (which is why I'm peed off at people saying "WWW" every time they give out a URL, or CSI referring to a "gun-shot wound" (3 syllables) as a "GSW" (5) :-)