Bill Borrows: Three reasons to be cheerful..Byline: Bill Borrows POP band the Magic Numbers Magic numbers The number of neutrons or protons in nuclei which are required to fill major quantum shells. They occur at particle numbers 2, 8, 20, 50, and 82. stormed off Top Of The Pops after presenter Richard Bacon described them as "A big fat melting pot of talent." The sensitive dears thought he was ridiculing their collective girth GIRTH., A girth or yard is a measure of length. The word is of Saxon origin, taken from the circumference of the human body. Girth is contracted from girdeth, and signifies as much as girdle. See Ell. . Others say: "They heard there was Bacon backstage." AND so radical cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed has been barred from the country as not being "conducive to the public good" after he went on his hols to Lebanon. That's fine but just think of the possibilities: Goodbye Nicky Campbell, see you later Davina, and don't bother to send a postcard Clarkson. THE Queen has loaned a pictured commissioned by George IV of Lady Lade, a horsewoman and foul-mouthed former prostitute who he coveted as Prince of Wales Prince of Wales switches places with his double, poor boy Tom Canty. [Am. Lit.: The Prince and the Pauper] See : Doubles , to an exhibition in London. Can't imagine why HM would like to get rid of it. Can you? |
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