I really enjoyed reading this article!! When I was in year 1 (1998), the term ‘oblong’ was used. But by year 6 (2003), I was almost laughed at by the teacher for using the word in question instead of the more favoured ‘rectangle’. I still feel a duty to continue to promote the word ‘oblong’. I notice a common place to find the word in question is cookery books; they will often give instructions such as “cut the biscuits into oblongs” etc. My parents also use the term ‘oblong’ as part of everyday language; perhaps that’s how they were educated.

To my understanding, a rectangle is any shape with four right angles. Therefore a square is a rectangle with equal sides and an oblong is a rectangle with equal sides.

This document from the Oxford mathematics study dictionary is really useful in promoting the term ‘oblong’: http://www.cimt.plymouth.ac.uk/resources/topics/art002.pdf

Loads of video from the first gig with th new band, have a look and let me know what ya think

Were you in the cinema when you had to look away? Where the hell did you look? A curtained wall perhaps? Or at a piece of stray popcorn on the floor??

Regards Yoda versus Inman, I think Yoda would box away at Inman’s leg, a la Scrappy Doo, while pronouncing “an ambulance, you are going home in”. Inman, inexplicably wearing lederhose, or a sailor suit would fail to even notice, and carry on trilling “i’m free” at the top of his voice, in a bid to sell menswear in a department store that never seemed to have more than about 3 customers. The fight would evetually be boken up by Mrs Slocombe, who would mistake Yoda for her pussy.

If you want to avoid such acts of vandalism, you can change from capitals to lower case by going into the format menu at the top, then clicking on change case – it will give you a range of options.

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Apart from I Surrender being by Rainbow. Black Night is indeed a Purple classic.

We rocked. But no mention of us on the news this morning.

There’s nothing worse than ordering a pie only for it to arrive on a plate in it’s own little bowl with nout but a pastry hat to tip towards the pie family.

Pies should have 4 walls and a ceiling, I’d say like a house but that wouldn’t be the best analogy – having ones house filled with very hot beef and gravy would be perilous to say the least.

Interesting concept regarding the worms – I wonder if worms are eternal, I mean when you’re gardening and you happen to accidentally chop one of the little blighters in half, you’ve effectively created two worms – its very scary.

Worms can apparently live for up to 4 years – education is fun, and can be educating too!

http://www.css.cornell.edu/compost/worms/moreworms.html