Have you just wasted my bandwidth on this crap? Fuck you.

According to this weeks show it's going to be happening soon on a neutral track somewhere.

And something I noticed recently - 2001 also includes the first ever depiction of an electronic cigarette forty some years before they were invented. Notice the red fire button and the two buttons below to adjust the voltage up and down and the red transparent tank at the top for the liquid. And in answer to your…

Maybe that's why he was so angry.

The alternate title is better.....

I'd be eeking if I was in a lake of liquid methane.

I can just see the headlines tomorrow - Man on internet admits he's wrong! Shock! Horror!

True, but I did say "harmless (so far)" - they're definitely a whole magnitude safer than burning tobacco 4 chemicals rather than 9600 (according to some reports).

Not really. Take the ecig for example. It's new, harmless (so far), doesn't affect anyone else but the user, and many parts of the world are trying to ban/ legislate it out of existence.

Interesting article. thanks for the link.

I don't think you could ever call Conan Doyle a great prose stylist, workmanlike is the best I could describe it as, but this isn't even workmanlike, it's just clunky.

Am I the only one that finds the style of this extremely dodgy? Doesn't read like Conan Doyle at all.

Just how tall do you have to be to sit on that?

Yes - if it was 2 monks walking the same day it's the spot where they'd pass each other.

I just get unremitting bleakness from the whole thing. Maybe it's just me.

The trouble I have with the 100 is that it's completely humourless. Out of all those people there isn't a single one that makes totally inappropriate jokes after a tense situation to relieve the tension - which is the sort of thing that real people do. Not one with a sense of humour. It's completely miserable. I find…

That looks like theatrical tomfoolery to die for.

Never heard of that.

And speaking of the 39 Steps BBC radio has just broadcast an earlier radio version starring David Robb and Tom (Doctor Who) Baker......

We come in peace. Shoot to kill!