Every sequel is inevitably better than the first movie.

(Projoy, re E numbers) Schrödinger would have understood.

The US govt. is discussing expanding the US, and currently has a set of designers in who are commissioned with designing a possible 51st state. The Senate committee in charge of the project have agreed that they'd like something in green, with maybe some yellow at the edges. They want the new state to have a purple flag, and its brand identity must involve concepts such as fun, forestry and ideally, oil. Street parties and schools with spectacular water features will also figure heavily, according to the glossy prospectus. Ideas for a name so far include Pachydermia, Republicanland and GOP-ia. An interesting detail of the plan is that the state will have a projected population of 1,500 - and the same number electoral college votes in Presidential elections.

Archeologists have just found the pyramid housing the tomb of Queen Victoria

Archeologists are people who study long running Radio 4 soap operas.

</lie> [Ibid] That's not too far off, is it? <lie>

[Projoy] Currently, this state is planned to be build in a quiet backwater in the Middle East, in a country called Iraq.