Friday

I had a hot post all primed up for mutumia but today is her b-day so now flaying and torment during birthdays is my policy.So you'll have to wait for another day people!So I will keep myself enterained in other ways. This is for all you Everton Football Club fans out there:
LIVERPOOL ECHO (AP) - A seven-year-old boy was at the centre of a Liverpool
courtroom drama yesterday when he challenged a court ruling over who should
have custody of him. The boy has a history of being beaten by his parents
and the judge initially awarded custody to his aunt, in keeping with child
custody law and regulations requiring that family unity be maintained to
the degree possible.

The boy surprised the court when he proclaimed that his aunt beat him more
than his parents and he adamantly refused to live with her. When the judge
then suggested that he live with his grandparents, the boy cried out that
they also beat him.

After considering the remainder of the immediate family and learning that
domestic violence was apparently a way of life among them, the judge took
the unprecedented step of allowing the boy to propose who should have
custody of him.

After two recesses to check legal references and confer with child welfare
officials, the judge granted temporary custody to Everton Football Club
whom the boy firmly believes are incapable of beating anyone.

-Those Brits kill me!Here are some interesting letters to a humor magazine they have over there.

The government says that there are nearly 50,000 people with HIV in Britain, a third of whom do not even know that they have it.
Is it just me, or is it a bit harsh that the government know and haven't told the poor sods?

John Campbell, e-mail

With reference to that series "Manhunt" where ex-Special Forces soldiers try to hunt down Andy McNab.
Why don't the producers include a couple of Iraqis in the hunting team?
They found the tw@t quickly enough the last time he played hide and seek with them.

Shuggie, Email

It's all very well Meg Ryan getting her kit off for her new film, but why wasn't she doing it twenty years ago before her puppies hit the pan?

Alan Pick, Kingston-upon-Toast


Hats off to the American police.
They arrive at Michael Jackson's Neverland ranch to arrest him a mere six months after he admits climbing into bed with young boys on worldwide TV.
Perhaps they should get some faster cars.

T Barnham, London

IT'S uncanny how some of these old sayings are true.
'Absence makes the heart grow fonder', said my wife as she waved goodbye to me on the way to spend a month with her mother.
Since then I have grown quite fond of my next door neighbour.
I actually gave her one on the living room carpet this morning.

Christopher Hampshire, Bristol


The recent suicide of Harold Shipman has thrown up some interesting questions.
For a start, does Shipman killing himself take his official tally up to 216, or does it count as an own goal?
Where does this final score place our national champ in the world league table?

Magnus, Sheffield

ONE pound a week will supply water for an entire village in Tanzania', says Oxfam.
So how come United Utilities charge me twenty pounds a month
for my three bedroom semi?
The fleecing b@stards.

Tracey Cusick, Cumbria

Anyway so much to do not enough time!Sometimes grad school can be a bitch!