I don't think this is slang. Phrasal verbs is the posh term. In this case, the two-word phrasal verb "put up" (accommodate) is different from the three-word "put up with" (tolerate). One question is whether the the final word is really a preposition or an adverb. If you can separate the main verb from the other bit (We put my mother-in-law up in the attic.) suggests it is an adverb. If separating the words sounds weird (We couldn't put up with my mother-in-law's moaning.), it's probably a preposition.

Therefore, saying, "We could put Churchill up." is fine.

In my case, the spotlight is on managers who say, "put everything on S3".

What observed phenomena?

'If you are allowed to submit "unverifiable" or what I call inscrutable evidence then it is every bit a legal permission to lie'

I'm no legal expert, but does this not depend on the rules of corroboration in the relevant jurisdiction? For example, I think in Scotland it wouldn't be enough for a witness to say they heard the accused say something, whether a lie or not. The evidence has to be corroborated in some way before it will be accepted. (I'm not sure if a second lying spy would count as corroboration though.)

It would probably be better to send an advance party of experts to set things up properly. Marketing executives and nutritional scientists come to mind. (Do we need telephone sanitizers these days?)

"For those who don't know PHP, the answer is:"

Except when it isn't. What's the source of that $name parameter to your function? Has it been sanitized in any way? I can imagine your interviewees taking a punt on what kind of idiot they are facing. (Looks like he was born in 1955 so the answer is probably x)

The UK's youngest member of parliament had this to say after here first few weeks in the job:

"So you’re not allowed to clap like an ordinary person, but you’re allowed to bray like a donkey? I mean, see PMQs, especially the Conservative side, they’ve got this weird noise they do. It actually sounds like a drunken mob."

It's not that small. Larger than Germany, smaller than Sweden.

Perhaps, but if by "west" you mean the Japan Sea coast, the tsunami risk is substantially lower.

I can't say I love it, but it's usually available, and it usually works. What's the problem?

Yes. It was Hitachi-Zosen. I'm guessing the training center is no longer there. It was a bit of ghost building at the time, and the company was suffering severe problems. I've read about the POWs. I doubt the fact that the company was founded by a man from Belfast made them feel any better. I'm glad the ferry is still running.

I have in-laws on the Shikoku side, and so Onomichi is the first symbol of civilization for them. :-) Sadly, I heard the opening of the expressway led to the closing of the Hiroshima-Imabari passenger ferry (sea bus?). That was one great boat trip.

The shinkansen station may have been built because of pork-barrel politics, but Onomichi is not such a dead end. Shipbuilding used to be a major industry, especially on the nearby island of Innoshima. These days, it sits at an important transport junction where the Nishi Seto Expressway crosses from Honshu to Shikoku. I once spent three works in a company training center on the island of Mukaijima, immediately across the water from Onomichi. This was about 30 years ago. I remember taking the cable-pulled ferry across the water and then queuing for ramen. At that time, they had started building the bridges that would connect Honshu and Shikoku. I got to drive across about seven years ago.

Doesn't seem a stupid question to me.

But at the speed of light not only does time slow, but space contracts. So I'm not sure we can say that light "travels" through space. It just attaches itself to whatever is touching it. So if we could convert all our body mass to photons, attach those photons to say a planet in another galaxy, and hope someone at the other end has a tool for reconverting those photons back to their original state, then perhaps it's possible. But if you did the return journey because you'd forgotten your swiss army knife, you'd find yourself a huge number of years in the future and that knife might be hard to find.

A note for those who think language should be descriptive. A "public school" in the UK is a very, very private school, often associated with unhealthy sexual practices and strange ways of speaking. Not everyone who attends such a school is a twat. Some are just plain cunts.

"Scotland gets a lot of income from North Sea oil"

If only. The income goes to the UK government who, with their great wisdom, spend it on long term "oil investments" such as bombing Iraq

I didn't intend to bring religion into it. I just wonder whether there are things of which we must remain forever ignorant. The "god" reference was a sarcastic stab at those who are not comfortable with ignorance. We seem bound to concepts such as "before" and "already existed" and find it difficult to shed the concept of time in our understanding of cause and effect. But this always leads to endless turtles. "created from nothing" is a convenient answer, and it may well be true. But I'm not sure how we would ever know.