When a country drives on the right hand side of the road, only sinister people have their sword-arm towards the oncoming potential highwaymen!

Actually, it's only the weird way in American English. In English we say, "the 8th of March 2013".

"They do not look and behave as expected" So exactly like *people* then?

Any chance of getting your politicians to knock off the "Leader of the Free World" bit? Given that the rest of the "Free World" doesn't get a vote, it's not very democratic, and you guys are all about spreading democracy, supposedly...

The Martian Chronicles, starring Rock Hudson and based on the stories by Ray Bradbury.

Isn't it US comedy films that are filled with fauxwits?

"Business magazine says businessman better than engineer" shocker.

It happened here in the UK just this month; a syndicate of bus drivers won around £3,000,000 each except for one woman who'd dropped out of the syndicate not long before.

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/bus-driver-left-lottery-syndicate-before-win.17074596

(That article says it was a bloke, but I'm sure the BBC reported it as a woman.)

"I'll never stop."

Wow, that's some +longevity you're expecting there...

"In my judgment, the words complained of are wholly incapable of conveying any meaning at all."

"Carter, I can see my house!"

Laid horizontally or vertically?

No, I haven't been recently... that's why I have ~140' of book-filled shelves.

Bloody photino birds!

It's not just missiles you know, we've got to spend £9bn on some playing fields for the big Sports Day in 2012. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6391075.stm

These scientists have no sense of perspective. They should get out of their labs for a run round the pitches instead of sitting around discovering things!