* Posts by Tom Ware

4 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Sep 2008

Swedish couple demand right to name baby 'Q'

Tom Ware
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My heartiest congratulations

to Mr and Mrs The Winged Serpent

"It's name is Quetzalcoatl... just call it Q, that's all you'll have time to say before it tears you apart!"

Women's lust for shopping linked to periods

Tom Ware

@Colin Millar @Andrew

C'mon now people, this isn't just scientific research. It's scientific research from an academic with an important new book to flog (Sheconomics, from £2.90 used and new on amazon, since you ask). I'm sure the good Prof would appreciate a little less snark as a lot of hard work went into thinking up that book title.

@Niall Campbell

I think your other half may have PPPMS - pre-peri-post-menstrual syndrome. It's a well recognised condition that leads to moodiness and unpredictability and lasts the week before, the week of and the fortnight after menstruation and up to sixty years after the menopause.

Half of Brits abuse apostrophe's

Tom Ware

I never abuse the apostrophe...

...although I occasionally violate the colon.

My name really is Ivan O'Toole, admits Ivan O'Toole

Tom Ware

There is a vet out there...

...called Everard Koch.

Fine upstanding fellow too.