The last time I saw God, She was black, not white.
Andie McDowell played an American; I don't remember her trying on an English accent. Now, Mel Gibson in Braveheart was another matter... Anyway, American women are far better shaped and mannered, no, charactered than those prim, emotionless English ladies. Please don't start with the Lady Di thing.
The World Series was actually called the World's Championship Series back in 1903, before being shortened to World's Series, and then World Series back in '64. It's nothing to do with the size of the geographical competition.
Incidentally, as much as I object to the Americanisation of the UK, baseball can't come quick enough to replace this cricket thingy. Everyone else has got the joke.
Six dollars a gallon? I wish; it's now almost double that!
Apart from that, John, you got the rest about right, except that Gordon "backpeddler" Brown couldn't organise a ding-dong in a distillery. Let's wait till Mr Cameron takes over.
BB
PS My sister was killed with a vegetable peeler...