Couple of days to evict someone, then we'll start task 2. I've pm'd the judges the menus, so hopefully we'll have a result soonish.

While we wait... WiH - what if a word which originally meant one thing comes, through common usage, to mean something else? I'm not sure an Academie Francaisesque attitude adequately acknowledges the way in which language evolves.

Like "smash it", you mean? If I had a quid for every time that phrase popped up on the X Factor this weekend, I'd have enough cash for a Rovers ladies hoodie modelled by Krissy. And Kelly Rowland (in my head I pronounce it Row-Land like that girl on Grange Hill who was friends with the rather rotund Roland) is always saying "Bring it". I don't think either of these "evolutions" in language are to be condoned, personally.

Like 'sick'...which now apparently means great...I could go on

The only 'smash it' I've come across is the one that cost Richard Keys his job. 'Gay' is an obvious example. Evolution doesn't care if it is condoned. The dinosaurs never called cake and custard 'dessert' - but where are they now?

Why you asking us where the dinosaurs have gone, your the scientist!
Tell me what kind of scientist are you ? (not being rude but I have conjured up visions of the tetley tea men
Technically I am considered a social scientist (from my last degree), defiantly do not feel like one though

I'm a scientist too, always 'experimenting'.

How silly would we feel if beaten by a menu that included a ketchup doused sausage roll?

Evolution isn't always brilliant though, is it? We've evolved into a nation that spends 6 hours a weekend watching Reality tv. Apart from the dinosaurs amongst us, obviously.

I quite liked Ken's snot block.

Like "bog", you mean? Quite acceptable in this case.

But "greens", for example, will only ever be different shades of green. It will never be acceptable to refer to vegetables as "greens", even if they're green.

Just as "glasses" will only ever be vessels you drink out of, or magnifying instruments for the opera or the countryside but can never be spectacles.

Looking glass, however, originally referred to a hand held polished surface which showed the holder a reflection of their image, but has now come to mean any piece of glass - huge or tiny, with a silvered reflective back. So that's evolved and now means something different (You must never, of course, refer to a "mirror".)

One of the most hideous examples is the misuse of the word "home". You can be "at home", or "going home" as "home" is an abstract noun. But you can only build a house, or buy a flat (not apartment!). Most sadly, "home" has become, by common usage, a word used incorrectly to describe the physical building in which you live. "I've bought a new couch for my home". Quite beyond the pale. This is why you may visit an "historic house" or go to stay in a "country house" but a "stately home" does not exist.

I am very worried by the thought that McLaran Field might be partial to that vanilla slice.

Ahh...

Is this your dog?

Shucks . Did nothing but shout and demand ideas but didn't come up with many good ones myself. My poor little pig, for example. dum-dum was a bit of a hero, though.