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Just for the sake of clarity flopsy doesn't actually have long floppy ears and PinkAngel isn't actually an angel, although she may well be pink, especially when she's been on the sunbed.

So, the blimpster has gone from xenophobe to nationalist, not sure if that's a promotion or not.

Whaaaaaaat?????????

It gets worse, there's no Santa Claus either...

Aaaaaaaaaaack!!!!!!!!

....and.... the tooth fairy?

Sorry njrick....the toothfairy got her cavity filled, but it did no good. so then she was pulled.

Too bad. I was kinda hoping to have my way with her the next time the flitted around.

Thousands of Frenchmen also fought for the Germans on the eastern front, many (although not all) of them as members of the S.S. Charlemagne Division, which ended up being pretty much wiped out helping defend Berlin against overwhelming Soviet forces in April of 1945.

When French Foreign Legion units defending the Bir Hachem strongpoint in north Africa surrendered to the Afrika Korps in June of '42, German general Erwin Rommel, the famed 'Desert Fox,' ignored a directive from Adolf Hitler to summarily execute German members of the Foreign Legion contingent for committing treason.

AFAIK, anyone wearing a French uniform would've had no official status as a combatant at that time since France was formally at peace... --C.K.

Sorry to return to cricket - but after all the arguments about all rounders - one who could have been an all time great has sadly died today. Basil D'Oliveira, who was shamefully denied the opportunity to play international cricket by apartheid South Africa, and started playing for England at the age of 33. A great gentleman as well as a fine player.

The memory of him hitting Charlie Griffiths (at that time the fastest "thrower" in the game) straight over his head for six at Headingley will always remain with me. May he rest in peace. At least he got recognition from his country once apartheid ended.

I echo those sentiments Lincoln. Basil D'Oliveira or " Dolly" as he was affectionately known was a fine cricketer and who knows what might have been if his career had started earlier and was not bedevilled by controversy when politics and posturing interfered with sport.

I recall with fondness his fine knock of 158 at the Oval against the "Old Enemy" in 1968 and not quite so fondly skittling 11 Hampshire players out for a paltry 68 runs in a domestic match.

I think that one I had worked out for myself! I am shocked about flopsy though!!