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One of my all time favourites, representing so much that I liked about the 70s...good film too.

OK: the mac in my user name is my initials. The C is for Coughlin. Early last year, my dad got a letter from a cousin who'd been doing some genealogy. Turns out Mary "Mae" Coughlin who married Al Capone in 1919 was my great aunt... Mae Capone

When we had a dog (Bruce - a mongrel, labrador/retriever/spaniel/collie) some years ago, we would have let him upstairs into the bedroom but for the fact that he seemed to think it was a big game, jump on the bed and pull the bedclothes off to lick our faces...not that up on dog behaviour, so...

Think it was nearer 100 tons. There's one in the Russian Kubinka tank museum, along with a 600mm Karl mortar: ???????? ??????? ????? | ??????????? ????? ?????????????? ?????????? ? ??????? (The link does work). Looks like quite a place to visit...

I remember in his "Random Thoughts" column stating that his use of "we" was due to him being an editor, those who had an issue with it were invited to go back to school. He was - Editor at large (whatever that is...) of G&A - this used to be standard formal usage for editors to refer to...

Cameron fires the .700 Nitro Express - YouTube Anybody know who this guy is - I mean who Cameron Mitchell is - couldn't see anything on Google other than the wrong Cameron Mitchells? Big lad, whoever he is...

Oh yeah...

Well, CB radios, although they never interested me, struck me as kind of useful before cell phones - weren't they popular with long distance truckers or something? Bell bottom pants (we called them flares here) were clothes - which have a purpose, don't know what the last two things are (will...

Well, most if not all have heard the expression "little things please little minds", but I have to wonder about people who get excited about this sort of thing. The irony is that many of them think they're interesting...

...or at least making the news/being made a big deal of... 1) Having a bucket of water poured over yourself 2) Photographing yourself with your phone Good...

We do actually, not many it seems; there's just nothing written on them - this one's about 15-20 miles away from me: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_Wv5iGVWpJk/UL4GsWGUPgI/AAAAAAAABkE/2j6VUHlt3jw/s1600/WaterTower.jpg Anyway, mystery solved - thanks for the replies.

Yep, that makes sense; think it did cross my mind something to do with pilots.

OK thanks; why is the town name printed on them?

At the moment, I'm watching "Snapped", but there's others. Not sure if every town has one, but there's quite a few.

I've been watching true crime shows from the Discovery Channel. Each show covers a murder in a particular town in the US, and usually comments that it didn't usually happen in this town where crime was very low, people leave their doors unlocked etc. The camera gives like a panoramic view of...

2 cups of caffeine anything is about my limit, OK - 3 if several hours apart otherwise I go down with a cold or something in addition to feeling horrible and not being able to sleep. Think it might be because I used to drink gallons of the stuff when I was a kid, so developed a sensitivity to it...

Out of interest, what SHOULD the dog's response have been when a cat jumps into their food?

They joined us through mutual agreement in 1707 (yes, Wikipedia I know, but it's a start) - something to do with getting access to trade in our colonies at the time, and Britain wanted defence against the French if they invaded Scotland, easier with political union: Acts of Union 1707 -...

Many of those who want independence are stark raving leftists for whom the UK government in London isn't left wing enough. And it couldn't be because the majority of the British public wouldn't vote them in as was illustrated in the Labour party's hammering at the polls in the 1980s. The Labour...

I believe so, that's why they were given a referendum...