9 Israel

8 New Zealand

7 Canada

6 South Afrika

5 Chile

4 Austria

3 Australia

2 U.S.A.

1 Venezuela

Source: Int. Journal of Public Opinion Research.

Quite an interesting list

Towards the end of the golf course, Dave hit his ball into the woods and found it in a patch of pretty yellow buttercups.

Trying to get his ball back in play, he ended up thrashing just about every buttercup in the patch.

All of a sudden.....POOF ! In a flash and puff of smoke, a little old woman appeared. She said, "I'm Mother Nature! Do you know how long it took me to make those buttercups? Just for doing what you have done, you won't have any butter for your popcorn for the rest of your life: better still, you won't have any butter for your toast for the rest of your life.......As a matter of fact, you'll never have any butter for anything the rest of your life!!!!! Then POOF! .she was gone !

After Dave recovered from the shock, he hollered for his friend, "Fred, where are you?"

Fred yells back "I'm over here in the pussywillows."

Dave shouts back, "DON'T SWING, Fred; for the love of God, DON'T SWING !"

Irish Airways:
As they approached Dublin number 1 runway, the tower heard:

PILOT - Bjeesus will ya look how fookin shart dat runway is?
CO-PILOT - Yer nat fookin kiddin, Paddy!
PILOT - Dis is ganna be one a de trickiest landings ever, Shamus!
CO-PILOT - Yer nat fookin kiddin, Paddy !
PILOT - Right, Shamus, when I say 'go' put de engine in reverse!!
CO-PILOT - Royt, I'll do dat !!
PILOT - An den ya put de flaps down!!
CO-PILOT - Royt, I'll do dat, too !!
PILOT - An den stamp an de brakes as hard as yer can an pray ta de Holy Mudder a Gad !!!
CO-PILOT - I'm prayin already, but I'll hit de brakes as hard as I can.

So, as the wheels hit the ground, Shamus puts the engines in reverse,
puts the flaps down, stamped on the brakes and continued to pray to the
Holy Mother with all his soul. The brakes screeched, the tyres squealed
and there was smoke everywhere, but, to the relief of all the passengers, and, not least of all, Paddy and Shamus, the aircraft came to a stop but a few metres from the end of the runway!!!

As Paddy and Shamus sat in the cockpit regaining some composure, Paddy looked out of the window and said to Shamus, "Dat has gat ta be De shartist fookin runway in de world!"

Shamus replied, "Yes, but da ya see how fookin wide it is?"

Can I have some Irish Sausages, please?" asked the Irishman,
walking up to the counter.

The assistant looked at him and asked: "Are you Irish?"

"If I had asked you for Italian sausage, would you ask me if I
was Italian? Demanded the Irishman indignantly." Or, if I asked for German
Bratwurst, would you ask me if I was German?" then, warming to his
theme, he went on: " Or if I asked you for a Kosher hot dog, would you ask me if I
was Jewish? Or, if I asked you for a taco, would you ask me if I was Mexican?
Would ya? Would Ya?"
The assistant said: "Well no".
Suitably encouraged by the success of his logic, the Irishman
steps it up a gear. "And if I asked you for frogs legs, would you ask me if
I was French?
What about Danish Bacon, would you ask me if I was Danish?"
"Well, I probably wouldn't" conceded the assistant.
So, now bursting with righteous indignation, the Irishman says,
Well, all right then, why did you ask me if I'm Irish just because I asked
for Irish sausages?"
The assistant replied: "Because you're in :curse: Homebase

A plane is on its way to Melbourne when a blonde in Economy Class gets up and moves to the First Class section and sits down.

The flight attendant watches her do this and asks to see her ticket.
She then tells the blonde passenger that she paid for Economy and that she will have to go and sit in the back.
The blonde replies, 'I'm blonde, I'm beautiful, I'm going to Melbourne and I'm staying right here!'


The flight attendant goes into the cockpit and tells the pilot and co-pilot that there is some blonde bimbo sitting in First Class who belongs in Economy and won't move back to her seat.
The co-pilot goes back to the blonde and tries to explain that because she only paid for Economy she is only entitled to an Economy place and she will have to leave and return to her original seat.


The blonde replies, IÂ’m blonde, I'm beautiful, I'm going to Melbourne and I'm staying right here!' Exasperated the co-pilot tells the pilot that it was no use and that he probably should have the police waiting when they land to arrest this blonde woman who won't listen to reason.


The pilot says, "You say she's blonde? I'll handle this, I'm married to a blonde, and I speak blonde!" He goes back to the blonde, whispers in her ear, and she says, oh I'm sorry - I had no idea," gets up and moves back to her seat in the Economy section.
The flight attendant and co-pilot are amazed and asked him what he said to make her move without any fuss. The pilot replied, "I told her First Class isn't going to Melbourne."

What are the predictions for tomorrows game folks?

Do you think JW's 'experimental team' will be able to pull off a win over England this time or will the crazy decision by SARFU to fly JW to Cape town on wednesday to appear in person for their meeting put the poor boks in even more strife?

CONSUMERS will soon be able to pay for their morning coffee or buy a cheap round in the pub by "wave and pay" payment cards.

Visa UK said yesterday

http://business.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?...1734842006

Story in full LARGE shops will be banned from opening on Christmas Day and New Year's Day after MSPs last night ignored an outcry from business and tourism leaders, who described the plan as "legislation gone mad".

http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=1734782006

I was recommended this book after watching the movie, 'Shooting Dogs', about the Rwanda genocide.

Anyone read this book about his account of being in charge of the UN Peacekeeping mission to Rwanda at the time of the genocide?

I'm half way through the book and the build up is amazing. The UN's brazen disregard for Rwanda and the unique problems it had in Africa.

Something for the winter. It's a variation on a Cologne recipe


Grant's Eisbein with lager and Honey glaze

Lager and honey-glazed Eisbein with Sauerkraut
Y=10 portions
SAUERKRAUT (to be made 36hours in advance)
Ingredients:
3 Large Spanish onions, thinly sliced
6 bay leaves
Maldon salt and cracked white pepper to taste.
200ml Dry white wine
15 Juniper berries
4 tins Prepared sauerkraut
100ml-clarified butter

Method:
In a deep heavy-bottomed pot, Sautee onions in the clarified butter until glazed Add bay leaves, juniper berries and seasoning. Add drained sauerkraut. Heat through gently, stirring with a heatproof spoon. Add wine and drained juices from tin. Continue heating through. Remove from the stove and cover with cling film. Leave for 24 hours to steep and the taste to develop.
When re-heating for service, do so on a gentle heat and progressively increase it to a medium heat over half an hour.

EISBEIN
Ingredients:
10 fresh Hind Quarter Eisbein (Pork Hock)
6 bay leaves
10L Salted water
1kg Vegetable mirepoix (Carrots, onions, celery – peeled, roughly chopped)

100ml Clarified butter
Maldon Salt and cracked white pepper

1litre Lager
350ml Acacia honey


Method:
Glaze:
In a saucepan, reduce the lager and the honey until it can coat the back of a spoon (pouring consistency). Reserve to one side.
Eisbein:
Simmer Eisbein for ± 8 hours in the salted water with bay leaves and vegetable mirepoix. (Optional: 50% water 50% Windhoek – though the cost would be extravagant, the flavour would be superb). Strain and reserve the Eisbein to one side. Allow cooling.
(Note: You can strain the liquid through a fine sieve and use it to make your own brown beef stock. The jelly effect will be enhanced by the gelatinous nature of the pork bones)



Using individual Eisbeins, season with salt and pepper, brush with butter. Heat in a pre-heated oven (220c) for 30 minutes (until crackling is crispy). Pour some honey-lager glaze over and return to the oven for a further 15 minutes till it caramelises. When plating, pour some of the remaining glaze over Eisbein.

Serve with new potatoes or roasted Jerusalem artichokes and mustard. And of course an ice-cold Lager!