1. 'Beam me up, Scotty' was never uttered on a Star Trek episode.
2. Sherlock Holmes never said 'Elementary, my dear watson'.
3. The actual quote is 'play it once, Sam'.
4. Why don't you come up sometime and see me? was the actual line in the film.
5. Michael Caine's real utterance was 'not many people know this...'
6. 'Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned'. Easier with the misquote, aint it?
7. So to Shakespeare. Often misquoted. In this case, ' Alas poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio'.
8. 'Lay on McDuff, and damned be him who first cries ‘Hold! enough!' was provocation from MacBeth to begin fighting.
9. Spock really said 'no life as we know it', although the misquote was used in the lyrics of 'Star Trekkin'.
10. 'The better part of valour is discretion'.  So using my discretion, I'll let you all off, and say that your answers weren't half bad!

1. Beam me ____ Scotty.
2. Elementary, my dear _______.
3. Play it _____, Sam.
4. Why don't you ______ ___ and see me sometime?
5. And not a lot of people ______ ______.
6. Hell hath __ _____ like a woman scorned.
7. Alas poor Yorick, I _____ ___ well.
8. ____ on, McDuff.
9. It's life Jim, but not as __ ____ it.
10. Discretion is the better part of _____.

Go for it, have fun, but NO CHEATING!

11th November 1919
The First Two Minute Silence in London:

The first stroke of eleven produced a magical effect.

The tram cars glided into stillness, motors ceased to cough and fume, and stopped dead, and the mighty-limbed dray horses hunched back upon their loads and stopped also, seeming to do it of their own volition.

Someone took off his hat, and with a nervous hesitancy the rest of the men bowed their heads also. Here and there an old soldier could be detected slipping unconsciously into the posture of 'attention'. An elderly woman, not far away, wiped her eyes, and the man beside her looked white and stern. Everyone stood very still ... The hush deepened. It had spread over the whole city and become so pronounced as to impress one with a sense of audibility. It was a silence which was almost pain ... And the spirit of memory brooded over it all.

~~From the Manchester Guardian, 12th November 1919.~~

Oh! sleep in peace where poppies grow;
The torch your falling hands let go
Was caught by us, again held high,
A beacon light in Flanders sky
That dims the stars to those below.
You are our dead, you held the foe,
And ere the poppies cease to blow,
We'll prove our faith in you who lie
In Flanders Fields.

Oh! rest in peace, we quickly go
To you who bravely died, and know
In other fields was heard the cry,
For freedom's cause, of you who lie,
So still asleep where poppies grow,
In Flanders Fields.

As in rumbling sound, to and fro,
The lightning flashes, sky aglow,
The mighty hosts appear, and high
Above the din of battle cry,
Scarces heard amidst the guns below,
Are fearless hearts who fight the foe,
And guard the place where poppies grow.
Oh! sleep in peace, all you who lie
In Flanders Fields.

And still the poppies gently blow,
Between the crosses, row by row.
The larks, still bravely soaring high,
Are singing now their lullaby
To you who sleep where poppies grow
In Flanders Fields.

~~By John Mitchell.~~

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My name is ARCHY. I have been rescued and now I live in the Nuthouse. I went to a home a couple of other times, but I was always brought back because people can't cope with me. It looks like I might be staying here though because even though I have had accidents on the floor and had a few arguments with Jasper I have been forgiven.

Mum says I'm a nightmare though, because now that I've settled down I'm actually acting like a young dog. I am around 18 months old, but I have never been allowed to live in a house before, so I'm not too sure how to behave. I want to be around people, it gives me reassurance, but I can't settle and people get cross with me when my nails keep clicking across the laminate floor. I like to sleep on something of Mum's if I can't be near her, and my paws are usually muddy.

I found the world of UPSTAIRS the other day, it's so exciting up there! I managed to get into a bag of rubbish and eat some dirty nappies, but they didn't taste too good so I ate a bar of soap and some toothpaste. I was in soooo much trouble!

Mum laughs at me when I'm tired, because I won't sleep. I sit down swaying as my eyes close but I always wake myself back up. Mum doesn't understand why I do this but it's because I have never been able to trust anyone. I steal food too, because I'm not used to being fed regularly. Mum says I need to put some weight on, but nothing she feeds me on seems to work. I have been here for over 2 months now, and I am still too thin to even get microchipped. Mum says she had a thin foster dog once, and she fed him porridge for breakfast to fatten him up. Maybe I'll get porridge too...

I don't do mornings, I like to stay in bed because I'm always worried that if I go out I might not be allowed back inside. Mum hopes that I will follow Jasper's example and be a good boy soon. I need to do some training, because although I know how to sit, that's about as far as it goes! And I can be very naughty if someone opens the door, sometimes I run away. I always come back though.

I need lots of love, but one day I will be a good pet. And I might even stop trying to eat the postman...