The least intelligent breeds (in reverse order of stupidity) according to Stanley Coren, psychologist and author of numerous books on dog intelligence. Criteria is as follows: Require more than 80 repetitions to understand a new command. Obey first commands less than 25 % of the time.

1. Pekingese
2. Bloodhound
3. Borzoi
4. Chow Chow
5. Bulldog
6. Basenji
7. Afghan Hound

1. "At the end of the day..." - It gets dark!!
2. "Don't mention it" - In response to a thanks. A bit late as I have already mentioned it!!
3. "D'you know what I'm saying" - Yes, I'm neither deaf nor stupid!!
4. "It's the least I can do" - In response to thanks. You repay me by doing the least you possibly can... Cheers!!
5. "He won't get there any quicker you know" - Yes he will, he's doing 150 down the motorway, he'll get there a LOT quicker!!
6. "There's no such thing as a free lunch" - Blatantly not true, if someone else pays for it... It's free!!
7. PIN Number - That would be a personal identification number number then. The worst case of this was NTL asking you to enter your personal PIN number!!

1. Get Me a New Agent!!!
2. Fly Fishing (J R Hartley)
3. Dreamstate
4. Monoliths
5. Cybergoth Guy
6. My Post-Grunge Balloon
7. Misunderstood

1. Both: Sailing on 'The Princess of Scandinavia' on the North Sea in a hurricane
2. Bekie: Having a tooth extracted
3. Ian: Stabbing myself in the eyeball with a twig (still attached to tree)
4. Ian: Getting hit in the face with a backwards swing of a golf club
5. Bekie: Eating Quorn. Bekie is extremely allergic to Quorn and spent the next 6 hours throwing up and the next 3 days feeling very ill
6. Ian: Being seconds from drowning to death just off the south coast of England
7. Both: Sitting through a whole recital of 'Hayden's Creation' on uncomfortable seats. When it finished we were very relieved until we realised it was only the half way interval!

1. Pair of Pants
2. Pair of Scissors
3. Pair of Scales
4. Pair of Glasses
5. Pair of Trousers
6. Pair of Tweezers
7. Pair of Compasses

1. What's on your pink CD babe?
2. I wish things didn't keep getting stuck in my hole
3. It's a bit fat, a bit wonky and the butts a bit loose
4. I was going to give it an up-sheep
5. It sounds like we are in Majorca above a naff disco
6. Why do we have so many penguins?
7. I'm trying to do a butt transplant here!

To celebrate the anniversary of the opening of the bridge, here are 7 facts about the Sydney landmark. Yes I know it opened on the 19th, but it's the 19th in Australia!

1. They had to paint it grey because there was no other colour of paint available in such large quantities taking 272 thousand litres of paint to get the first coat on.
2. The bridge wasn't paid off until 1988.
3. There are no nuts and bolts holding the bridge together, only 6 million rivets, the largest one weighing 3.5 kilos.
4. The pylons are only decoration! They don't really hold it up.
5. The arch rises and falls 18 centimetres due to heating or cooling.
6. 96 railway engines were parked on the bridge in 1932 to test its load carrying capacity.
7. It is the widest long-span bridge in the world.