Well, there seems to be a little bit of fuss about Allen Stanford “flirting” with some of the England WAGS. But why: surely the players understood that for $1 million a piece – potentially - the billionaire would expect his pound of flesh. In fact he seemed to have got several pounds of flesh when he bounced [...]
Entries from October 2008
October 6, 2008
Asteroids: an update
Reverse Sweep’s northern correspondent, Jack S Pratt, has just emailed me to suggest that should an asteroid come hurtling towards earth in the next couple of years, that rather than send Bruce Willis up to counteract it, as in the film Armageddon, we should propel Sky pundit Bob Willis up instead. Sounds like a good idea to [...]
October 2, 2008
Twenty20: bring on the asteroids
Apparently scientists around the world have made a renewed plea to governments for resources to watch out for asteroids that might just tumble into the same orbit as the Earth and, barring sending up Bruce Willis to launch a large nuclear device at the offending object, ultimately destory us all.
Well, I say to those in [...]
