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Fire! - Some One's Dinner's Burning

Where is the last place you would expect to find a fire? That's right, a fire station! Well that's exactly what happened in the Japanese town of Nagoya. A blaze broke out after a firefighter left a cooking stove burning as crew members left the station to respond to emergency calls. Most of the duty staffers were out on a call when their colleague, alone at the station and cooking dinner for the crew, was himself called out. In his haste to respond to the call, he forgot to turn the stove off, said Seiji Hori, a Nagoya City Fire Department official. Hori added "We are an institute that should be in a position to educate people about fire, so we are extremely sorry that such an incident happened," Hori said. He then added, that they would consider ordering-in for dinner from now on. Perhaps they'll pop out for an English take-away.

Who Am I - Yesterday's Answers

In yesterday's 'Who Am I' you were asked to put your detective hat on and identify a mystery personality from a set of ten clues given.

Answer: Paul Anka

Well done to those of you who got it right!

Do We Really Crave This Type Of Television?

On Tuesday evening I watched the first half of a comedy show I had not seen before. It was screened by ITV1 and was called Katy Brand's Big Ass Show. Now I'm no prude, far from it, but I found this show appalling. The language was foul and the comedy non-existant. Following on from the Jonathan Ross debacle and then the outrage caused by Gordon Ramsay, using the F-word 187 times in his show that ran for 103 minutes, I despair at the demise of British television.
I totally agree with the argument that I, nor anyone else, is forced to watch this kind of rubbish,
after all we do have a remote control and can switch channels or even turn the television off. But isn't it a little bit sad that these kind of programmes command large audiences. Are there no acceptable boundaries of good taste left anymore?

Dingbats - Yesterday's Answers

Here are the answers to yesterday's dingbat puzzles:

01 Too little too late
02 Overstep the mark
03 Cold in the nose
04 No end in sight

Did you get them all right?