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PERFETC ENDINGS

In one Charlie Brown cartoon, Peppermint Patty wonders aloud “Do all fairy tales begin with ‘Once

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COOL SIGHTINGS

There is a wonderful, and very telling, scene in the hugely popular 1993 film Cool Runnings

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BLOCK HEAD

Charles Schulz first introduced the world to Charlie Brown in 1950 in his Peanuts cartoons. While

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DO THE MATH

Remember the topic of ‘inequalities’ in Maths? We know what the sign for, as well as

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SMART THINKING

When we go for an interview, we will no doubt appear in jacket and tie (for

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DELETE THE ELITE

Wayne Goldsmith was the Australian physiologist who in 1992 was tasked to identify talented athletes and

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A CROSS TO BEAR

It is uncanny how anagrams can have such close correlations to each other and mean almost

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WHEN GOOD IS BAD

A long time ago, a teacher was trying desperately hard to enthuse his Form One English

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UNFINISHED

We do not need to drive far around town nowadays to witness a scourge on the

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UNSTOPPABLE

After being taunted and mocked by his opponents, even having his head kicked and his integrity

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WHAT THE F IS MISSING

There is a wonderful cartoon that has one character saying, “Benjamin Disraeli said ‘There are three

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DREAMS DASHED

The dream of every youngster who plays sport is to play it at the highest level,

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THAT IS CRAZY!

Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are well-known television personalities from their hugely popular worldwide

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PLAY ME

MARILYN Monroe once famously said that “Diamonds are a girl’s best friend” and it is a

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LOST OR FOUND

Back in 1970, the American author Richard Bach published the book ‘Jonathan Livingston Seagull’ that “tells

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Upgraded!

Here you are, on a long, long flight back to reality after a spellbinding six weeks

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WHAT ARE YOU MAKING?

Children come up with the most amazing statements.  Sometimes they can be very amusing, as any

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WHY NOT

At the funeral recently of a young man who had committed suicide, the pastor unapologetically expressed

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YOU ARE RIGHT

We may have come across the following scenario before: Two brothers were raised by an alcoholic

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GOING TO THE DOGS

IT will probably have escaped the attention of all but the most astute, kindest and most

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THE GREAT DIVIDE

Frank Lampard, Steven Gerrard, Paul Scholes, Bobby Charlton, Wayne Rooney – we have probably all heard

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AIM HIGHER! 

A man lived on the 25th floor of his apartment block and every day he took

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A MORAL VICTORY

At the end of a recent sporting fixture between two rival schools, parents of one of

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HOLD ON

We tend not to associate poetry and sport; indeed, we will not be aware of many

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HONOUR HONOUR

At one stage or another, we have all enjoyed an informal game of touch rugby or

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GETTING SHIRTY

The shirts that sports players wear today may be made from different material after extensive research

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FEAR FACTOR  

Emma Hayes has been in the spotlight recently, unsurprisingly no doubt, as the manager of the 

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A COACH MUST COAX 

Mention the phrase ‘hair-dryer treatment’ and most sports followers will think immediately of one  name –

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FOREVER AND ANON 

So, what do the following have in common? Freddie Mercury, Magnus Magnusson, John Stephen  Akhwari, Winston

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MINING GOLD 

It is claimed that over sixty-nine countries around the world now host their own version of

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BEING MEN  

Have you ever wondered what Snoop Dogg, Rabbie Burns and Rudyard Kipling have in common?  Furthermore,

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HEART STRONG

Louis Armstrong is known to many generations as one of the greatest jazz singers and trumpet 

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KILLING IT!  

‘The Killing Fields’ was a powerful film about the Khmer Rouge regime under Pol Pot in

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PATENT TALENT  

Tiger Woods was interviewed on television at the age of 2, played his first tournament aged

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LATENT TALENT

Rudeness is generally not considered to be a special talent; indeed, it would for the most

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MISTAKEN IDENTITY 

Professional tennis comes up with some astonishing statistics. Many will know that the longest  match took

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BOTTLE IT  

There is the old joke that an Englishman, a Scotsman and an Irishman were stranded on

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R-E-S-P-E-C-T  

In 1967, Aretha Franklin was transformed from a domestic star into an international one through the

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