Monday 29 December 2003

Word of the year According to a story in ZDNET UK an American Website has chosen 'Embedded' as Word of the Year for 2003. Yourdictionary.com chose the word as "the best word to distil the events of an extraordinary year into eight simple letters" according to Paul J.J. Payack, President of Yourdictionary.com. Other words that typified the year include Blog and SARS. The full list of Top Ten Words of 2003 can be found here. 2:28:48 PM    comment []  Google It!

Comedian Bob Monkhouse dies The BBC reports that Bob Monkhouse has died at the age of 75. My earliest memories of Bob Monkhouse date, I think, from the late 1960s when he hosted the Golden Shot. We were living in the Republic of Ireland at the time but we regularly went to Enniskillen to visit my mother's family and I saw a few episodes of that program and I loved it. Later, with the advent of alternative comedy I tended to sneer at his jokes but a few years ago he turned up as a guest on Have I Got News For You and I saw that he was a very funny guy. The world has become a slightly less funny place with his passing. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] 2:15:24 PM    comment []  Google It!

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