A true beanie should have a propellor on the top.

This wasn't food - it was what food became if it had been good and gone to food heaven.

History, contrary to popular theories, is kings and dates and battles.

You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more," said Yo-less. "It's speciesist. You have to call them pre-petroleum persons.

The 'New Testament', now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by the community to work with wood - a material that couldn't have been widely available in Palestine.

It's no wonder most religions are born in the desert, because when men lay beneath that boundless night sky and look up at the infinite expanse of creation they have an uncontrollable urge to put something in the way .

Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn't. But then again, what does?