Tell us something really trivial about your life (Vol 27)

[DickyC]

Yes, but it's a Bank Holiday. Does that count? Flouncewise?

[DickyC]

Telegraph Business News - Wave of deals means the days of Arthur Daley-style car salesman might be numbered.

Cars to automatically vaporise at six years old.

[DickyC]

ChemicalChaos said:

A trivial fact about Wyoming.

Wyoming has an area 4,000 square miles larger than the entire UK.
The UK is home to 53 million people.
Wyoming is home to 600,000 people.

It is simply vast on a level unimaginable to most people.

And yet the whole of the USA is a similar size to the Sahara Desert.

Now that's big. It's no wonder folk get lost in it. They should have more signs.

[DickyC]

There was a regular Jack-the-Lad character in Minder called Maltese Tony played by Michael Kitchen. Some mornings either Terry or Arthur would find him asleep in the back of a car on Arthur's car lot.

Or so I thought.

According to IMDb, Maltese Tony only appeared in one episode. So, not a regular character at all. The genius of Minder must have been its amiability where everything and everyone seemed familiar.

Worse, I found that out but I can't remember what I was looking for. Ah, the joys of the internet.

[DickyC]

A month? How long is it, Lands End to John O'Groats? You won't want to be doing that with a dodgy knee.

[DickyC]

They're two people? That hadn't occurred to me.

[DickyC]

"You might say that. I couldn't possibly comment."

In the first series of the new Kevin Spacey House of Cards he said it a few times.

[DickyC]

After a successful debut, the follow up album is very important but all too easy to get wrong. Ask Mike Oldfield.

[DickyC]

Recurring pie?

I recommend Andrews Liver Salts.

[DickyC]

That is correct.

What theme do you use when concealing those elephants, pray tell?

I like to spontaneously write and perform jingles for people entering rooms. They do all sound a bit sixties pirate radio but a surprising number of recipients seem pleased.

For example, when you appeared I might burst out with a jingle-icated: Hi d'the eller funts!

You'd be chuffed with that, right?

[DickyC]

Oh, do behave.