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It would be really interesting, actually. How many genres and sub-genres would you include or would it all be rock? ;)

:eek: You're right about breath control – there is none – but I'm not sure whether lessons would help much with the inability to even hit the right note, as opposed to a number of flat ones in there. There's also no actual sense of rhythm and the performance can hardly be described as...

No. I like Oasis – What's the Story? remains a favourite album. But no. They weren't even the best Brit pop band from that era. Blur were musically far more adventurous, while Pulp's Different Class is the stand-out album of that time and musical genre.

I'm amused by your use of the phrase "true faith". You can disagree until the cows come home with other religious people that you personally think are too fundamentalist or too liberal or just wrong in their interpretations of any religion, but to baldly imply that theirs is not "true faith" is...

Imagine Dubya trying to learn Wampano-quiripey, which is the indigenous language of Connecticut ...

I'm not sure as a "pal", but there are plenty I'd want to meet and talk to. I still live in the hope of being able to meet Günter Grass and have a sort of plan to head out to Lübek for a pilgrimage to the house where the Mann family lived. Grass apparently lives close by. In terms of...

Earth Abides by George R Stewart When Isherwood Williams, a geology student, descends from trip to the mountains, he finds that the majority of the human race has been wiped out by a disease. Making his way first from desolate San Francisco to the west coast and then back, he eventually finds...

It would have been hilarious to seem them in this recent – and excellent – exhibition. In terms of 'wrong' art, I wonder if they've ever come across the Nazis' idea of 'entartete Kunst' ('degenerate art'), particularly since the Nazis used the term to predominantly condemn modern art? Nail...

The weekly Manchester City FC one. I don't have any children and I'm not aware of the cats listening to any – but then you never know with cats, when their staff are out.

I'm wondering if that starts with an exploration of the meaning of the word 'theory' in a scientific sense.

What a bunch of complete plonkers. Presumably these were "home-school students" because no proper academic institution worth its salt would countenance such weak-brained twaddle.

Unfortunately, that service isn't available outside the UK.

Correct – the 44 Scotland Street series are by Alexander McCall-Smith.

~~Much sniggering~~ A prize for literature for a supposed work of non-fiction (History of the English Speaking Peoples)? The Swedes gave him the prize out of embarrassment for not being on the 'right' side in WWII. ;) Waveguide – as Bernard Shaw put it: "Two nations divided by a common...

I try not to take much comedy "too seriously". ;) He's quite funny – and not a bad actor either. He's cropped up in a few things, including The Mummy.

My other half spent 10 years of his youth/early adulthood in next door South Africa and has enjoyed the books as well as the TV film, so I assume that he considers it as accurate a portrayal of the culture as he can know. I thought that it was delightful – as were the books.

Massively depends what I'm listening to. For instance, if it's classical, then I usually have a very good idea what I'm buying and it's not much of an experiment. Some albums will be played more than others, but I can't think of any classical discs that I have that I don't like at all. It...

I have enjoyed Gibson's work – a dedicated, autographed copy of Mona Lisa Overdrive is one of my book treasures – and I'd also recommend Snow Crash, which Sparky mentioned earlier.

"Get real"? ~~ROTFLMFAO~~ Have you actually bothered to read the opening post of this thread? I answered a question that demanded imagination beyond the possible – ie beyond the "real". If you haven't got either the imaginative powers to do that or the necessary interest in anything in the...

There have been a number of times over the years when circumstances have brought to mind a line by Philip Larkin: "They **** you up, your mum and dad".