Song 5 - 'The Luckiest', Ben Folds

Out of the countless artists on my iPod, there is only one whom bunn can't stand, to the extent that if one of his songs comes on when we're both in the car, I have to hit the random next song button quickly. That artist is Ben Folds (and his three-piece band The Ben Folds Five).

This is a shame, partly because I really like Ben Folds but also because I feel I should be sharing my favourite romantic song with my wife. I can't, so I'll have to share it with you lot instead. The song is 'The Luckiest'. This version has Ben playing with an Australian symphony orchestra.

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Amsterdam to create scum villages

Reagan won a landslide in 1984, but in today's USA, Mondale would have won.

When Lord Leveson gets his facts from wikipedia without checking, we should probably forgive students who do the same.

This sounds horrible, but isn't it exactly the sort of thing parents do to force their children to eat vegetables and other crap?

An immensely useful free RPG download. How did I ever manage without it?

Time to scrap the university personal statement.

The World's Worst Online Dating Stories. Some of these are funny, some are scary, some are really horrifying. And more than a few don’t, to be frank, reflect well on the dater making the complaint.

I wish I knew as much about X-Men as I do about Carry On, so I could appreciate this more.

I know that some of you reading this are fans of fantasy literature. I also know that some of you are fans of single malt scotch. Those of you are fans of both should definitely read Joe Abercrombie's Whisky Deathmatch.

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"Deck the Halls with Macro Follies" - "The greatest collection of economic holiday hits ever assembled!"

Client feedback to marketing agencies as posters. (Much better than it sounds.)

Sir Patrick Moore had some financial difficulties in the last few years of his life. So Brian May bought his house for him. (Please, please, please BBC, don’t give The Sky at Night to that wanker from Manchester with the bad dress sense and the creepy lips. Give it to Chris Lintott and Brian May. Queen, not D*Ream.)

Famous movie scenes in Lego. (I think The Godfather is the best.)

ESPN presenter argues that Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III isn't "really" black because he has a white fiancee and he's a Republican. (For this, he has been suspended for 30 days by ESPN. This is the same punishment they gave to a basketball commentator (whose wife is Asian-American) who asked “Is there a chink in his armour?” about a Chinese basketball player. The former behaviour seems much worse to me.)

Gerard Depardieu moves to Belgium and farts in the general direction of President Hollande.

Bradley Wiggins is, without doubt, the coolest man on the planet right now. And a random security guard might be second.

Football management - what they apparently _do_ teach you at Harvard Business School.

The Doha climate change talks failed. That doesn't matter since they would have had a trivial effect anyway. What matters far more is the Doha trade talks.

I wonder at what point the Labour Party website will remove this page...

Famous British eugenicists. (Including Marie Stopes, who disinherited her son for marrying a short-sighted woman.)

Strong contender for worst album cover of all time. On the other hand, it does feature a cat.

Spot the hidden Dalek!

If video games were realistic.

This is just too good to bury in a Phligm Phlagm post. It deserves a post of its own.

Beyonce v Benny Hill.

Enjoy...