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Jack wakes up with a huge hangover after the night at a business function. He forces himself to open his eyes and the first thing he sees is a couple of aspirins next to a glass of water on the side table. And, next to them, a single red rose! Jack sits down and sees his clothing in front of him, all clean and pressed. Jack looks around the room and sees that it is in perfect order, spotlessly clean. So is the rest of the house. He takes the aspirins, cringes when he sees a huge black eye staring back at him in the bathroom mirror and notices a note on the table: Honey, breakfast is on the stove, I left early to go shopping - Love you!!" He stumbles to the kitchen and …

Could this be true? Knowing some Irishmen, I could believe it. Supposedly, during a U2 concert in Ireland, Bono hushed the audience for a dramatic moment. In the silence he startet to clap his hands, and said, "Each time I clap, an African child dies." And somebody in the first few rows yelled, "Then stop fekkin' doin' it!"

I've pretty much decided after going thru a phase of wanting a digital camera, then a Nintendo Wii (I've always had Nintendo's) that I want an XBox 360 for Christmas, what I'm gonna do is ask for cash then buy one in the January sales, plus they'll be even cheaper cos of the release of the Wii and PS3, what I want to know is... What are your favourite games? I'm thinking Moto GP, GTA 4 but I'm unsure about what else, maybe Godfather and another shooter game (I don't want all shooting games like the box seems to specialise in). Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Richard.

I know a few of you boy racers have got scooby's on here, so thought I'd try and trawl your collective knowledge banks. If for instance a middle aged mate of mine were to come across a mid life crisis some time soon, and go out to buy a parallel import Scooby WRX would you have any guidance. Any disadvantages to these parallel imports. My middle aged mate tells me they are imported from Cyprus and sold by a fairly large dealership somewhere near me (who also provide service and backup). The three year warranty is apparently fully valid in UK. The trade in price after a couple of years seems to close in very quickly on the genuine UK vehicles. Any info for my poor old…

I suppose that the internet having been around for oh .. what 15 years now , that i should know how to post pics. However i'm, slightly cyber impaired. I poked around the site and found no how to's. I did find the image icon on the tool bar over the message field. It leads me to believe you need to have the pic already out there on the net some where. This true?? Or can you post directly to the site??

So Andy, in the quiz about your hobby's you never told if that was actually you in the hillclimbing event! Your name for sure showed up! ps- when do we do renewals on the supporter thing, as I have no idea when it expires?

Hiya, I think I'd quite like a WW2 strategy game, where you're in control of a unit of blokes on the ground, but isn't too difficult (not too easy either), more in for the enjoyment, tanks would be nice . I know Andy is right into these, and you lot will know more than me. Are there any games you would particularly suggest. I would quite like to have one that you can play two player over a LAN aswell so I can stove my brother in. Bob

Contemplating BT Homehub thing anyone got any experience of it???

Now if only I could publish those photos I have of a stripped-down 4-RT factory bike gearbox (Fuji's) that I took in Japan... (Nobody's actually said I can't, but as I know it would cause a lot of hassle if I did they will remain offline and part of my private collection - along with most of the photos of the Japanese dancing girls ) well at least tell us whats in the pictures if your not going to show them, oh yeah and if you must you can tell us about the gearbox too. gearbox..schmeerbox. now about these dancing girls.... From the Beta Forum Andy keeps going on about these Japanese Dancing Girls so the poll question is this...Should Andy Divulge more of hi…

I'm using Picassa web albums for my photo pages. It offers: Embed in Blog/MySpace Copy and paste the HTML below to post a thumbnail of this image on your blog or MySpace page. & gives this html... <table style="width:auto;"><tr><td><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/motomerlin/DownlandTrial06/photo#4999424968239087634"><img src="http://lh3.google.com/image/motomerlin/RWGGhUEcABI/AAAAAAAAAZI/COHHwl-nUx8/s288/DSCF0644.JPG"></a></td></tr><tr><td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:66%; text-align:right">From <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/motomerlin/DownlandTrial06">Downland Tria.…

G'day all. Forgive me if this has been posted before. But just wondering what everyone does for money. This is a truely global site and it interests me what people do to pay the bills. So i'll start with myself Qualified Diesel Mechanic. Running my own repair workshop from our families 350acre farm. Did my apprenticeship at Caterpillar. Last worked at Ford Motor Company Australia at their Proving Ground. So, don't be shy and post up!

Warning - Plumbers crack exposed as overweight motorcyclist crashes on moped Super-slow mo at the end is a instant classic.

Blimey. These bring back a few memories Clicky

Prima donna sports star from south west Europe...... Raga Prima donna sprts star from south west Europe Ronaldo Spooky! Any others??

I daresay Andy will have the stats but has there ever been a single thread on the foums with more hits than the beta 4t thread, over 7500 page hits, incredible.

Was riding home this evening (not on me Raga 300cc ) following a Suzuki Hayabusa. As my thoughts turned to what this Suzuki would do top speed it dawned on me the busa was restricted!. So why have Suzuki and other manufacturers restricted there super bikes to 186mph? The cars are restricted to in some cases to 155mph, and I seem to remember years ago there was an agreement to limit horse power on the bikes to 125bhp (about the same as me Raga ) So why this odd speed 186mph limit? the only thing i can think of is the average police helicopter does 186mph - but this can't be right

clicky Bet there some gorgeous classic American bikes in among this lot......mind you Andy would probably be more interested in the WW2 Flying helmet and goggles

Could someone tell me where the (log out) option went? Thank You

This is a nifty little plug-in for Firefox that allows you to download embedded video from YouTube, Google Video etc. directly to your PC in FLV (Flash), AVI (Windows Video) or MP4 (iPod) format. I seem to remember a "how do I?" type question along these lines was asked a while ago and after fiddling with several of those screen-scraper type utilities and manually patching URLs from the page source I came across this one which makes the whole job a lot easier (2 mouse clicks!)

Hi I'm just after some travel advice as we are going to Europe for 5-6 weeks in 07. We have been before to the major Cities [Paris, Rome, Vienna etc ] This time we would like to go to some smaller Cities/Villages in France, Switzerland and Germany. So is it easier to hire a car and drive or should we catch trains, buses or maybe internal airflights. Any advice will be appreciated Cheers