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Ah crap - I actually came across this guy trying to find the last one! But where....

This Billy the kid? (Pictured relaxing in Mexico....)

Abraham-Louis Perrelet?

....but it's okay because you didn't tell her you have herpes....

I wasn't sure, which is why I hedged my bets with 'patented'! But you did ask the question if it was true....

Patented self-winding automatic watch.

John Harwood

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Wait, I'm confused now, who is heisting whom?! Time to bring out the karate chimp. Did I mention the karate chimp?

You're not kidding!!

Froggy....behind you! Oh, dear....

C'mon people....hand the cash over......

Yer not so scary from behind... And yer horse don't scare me neither....

Right....hands (and watches) in the air.....hand over the cash....!! You don't want a You don't want me to impale this horse on the spiky fence. ...or have to do whatever it is they're doing here.

Goes without saying that they're all Aussies I was just meaning that it's not so straight-forward that Croatia will beat Australia, because Australia has players that Croatia would choose if they could (and vice versa, Croatian defender Josip Simunic is from Canberra). Look forward to playing USA in the final! Their coach was quite disparaging about Australia's appearance in the competition.

Ah, but the Aussies have a secret weapon......Croatian players!

Mmm....beer...

This is from BBC Sport about McClaren: WTF?! Who thought that? Certainly nobody within fifteen feet of Alex Ferguson. Is this the same man who lost 7-0 to Arsenal, 4-0 to Aston Villa this season?! Tactical brains?!

1966? Did anything happen in 1966?! They should have mentioned it sooner! (I'm a complete hypocrite - clinging (drunkenly, while wallowing in self-pity during the Berti era) to events over seven hundred years ago). We had to go through exactly the same spiel at the last World Cup with Beckham's foot injury; the journalists have only had to rearrange a few lines and perhaps add the words 'fat', 'pies', 'who', 'ate', 'all', 'the'. Hopefully he will recover in time for at least one, critical knock-out match. After all, that's one hell of a temper he has on him.....

On a serious note.... Can I give my heartfelt, and straight-faced, congratulations to the English FA upon their appointment of Steve McLaren. (Only three million pounds a year? I would have thought six or seven at least) I look forward to many, many happy footballing moments over the coming weeks and years....

You take the ever-so-simple Australian system of a Qualifying Final, followed by an Elimination Final, followed by a Semi-Final, followed by a Preliminary Final, followed by a Grand Final.....and give it to a Swiss person. Voila! UEFA co-efficients.

Happy days down Gorgie way, eh? Congratulations! Could have been first place with George perhaps? And much fun in the Hearts saga for the summer no doubt - expect to see Paul Gascoigne as new Technical Director (would you be that surprised?!!) Actually, Champions League should make it possible to recruit some European class players. I may be wrong, but has the position not now guaranteed Gretna European football, while at the same time denying Hibs (or 4th place)? Gretna in Europe is the stuff of 'Roy of the Rovers'-type fantasies (like when Raith played Bayern Munich, and Bayern are busy looking for Raith on a map), but it's probably not so great for the old UEFA co-efficient.

You're right - it's a gorgeous, interesting watch. Good work!!