Any time you meet a man who is an only child of middle class parents, it stands to reason that at a minimum he stands to inherit, eventually, a home and its contents, and probably some money too.

Whether this happens early in life or late in life may affect his whole future. (Compare Queen Elizabeth II of England and her son Prince Charles.)

Surely hooking up with an heir is better than hooking up with some guy who has no prospects of anything other than what he can save out of salary, or earn by his own business activities. At the very least it provides a safety net for the LW's future children if times get hard.

In fairy tales, when the unkissed frog turns out to be a prince-in-waiting, that is generally considered a desirable outcome.

My own girlfriend, alas, is no heiress except to my estate, but she makes it up to me in other ways.

As I understand it, the i-Phone works with a GSM card that contains the telephone number and other information.

GSM cards can be switched from any unlocked phone to any other unlocked phone. I have two GSM cards, one with T-Mobile that I use in the US, and another with Orange that I use overseas.

I don't see how, if you run your i-Phone with, say a T-Mobile GSM card, Apple is going to be able to transmit something to your phone to disable it, unless you yourself actually choose to install a new operating system.

Maybe someone with more technical nouse than I can explain what they could do?

... you could say the same about almost any kind of crime fighting. No matter how many people are convicted of tax evasion, someone else will always give it a try, no matter how many people are charged with selling cigarettes to minors, some kids will still smoke cigarettes, and so on ad infinitum.

Steroids are particularly dangerous, because many young people try them not only to achieve success in sport, but also as an adjunct to recreational body building without being fully aware of the side effects and dangers.

Only a few weeks ago a young coworker of mine who was bodybuilding with steroids got into a 'roid rage induced fight in which he badly injured another man and ended up in jail. This kind of thing seems to be incredibly common and I suspect that an awful lot of crime is fueled by illegal steroid use. In fact I have often suspected that OJ Simpson (If He Did It) might have been under the influence of steroids, since he was supposedly crippled with arthritis and yet also able to make an exercise video, and was prone to violent temper tantrums. Certainly makes you wonder, doesn't it?

No really, we are not. Their political leader is an ignoramus, a former blacksmith, a religious fanatic.

Our leader is a statesman, a profound intellectual, a man of immense spiritual depth born of years of transcendental study aided by grain, grape, and the leaves of plants especially endowed by God with insight-making chemicals.

Their people are simple, fanatical, easily led by crazed religious leaders. They travel by donkey, animals that pollute the planet with braying, flatulence, and poop.

Our people are knowing, highly educated, rarely influenced by propaganda or advertising, and quite a few of them even believe in advanced new theories like evolution. They travel in clean, air-conditioned SUVs on silent rubber tires, produce no gas, and do not poop. Blacksmiths have been forcibly re-educated as auto mechanics and tire change mechanics and are not allowed to lead the country, no way, no how.

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Ahmedinejad is bad to the bone and was personally responsible for 9/11 or if not personally responsible, he certainly smirked when he heard about it, which is the same thing when you think about it. Like Emmanuel Goldstein and Professor Moriarty, his predecessors, he is the Napoleon of international crime. Nothing bad happens without his finger being in the pie. Truth loving Americans need to be protected from this devil at all costs, not that Americans can be intimidated by terrorism. Why, every time a plane goes down millions of Americans fly even though they have no particular place to go just to show that they are not cissies.

Does he ever! It doesn't seem that the pronunciation guides help much, because he is still saying "eye ran" rather than "ear run" for the country next to "eye rack". Still, at least he has got Gordon Brown's name down pat, and got pretty close with Tony Bliar... sorry, Blair.