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Edginton.  Leviathan has seldom been bettered. Z

Purely for that one issue Dredd: Firepower.  Ennis

Alan Moore, Jesus i wish he'd stayed.  Z

Getting nostalgic.  Finlay-Day.  Putting Rogue Trooper out at the apogee of 2000ad and making the strip stand out against the competition back then was something else.  Plus Harry 20 and the VC's...c'mon! Z

Milligan, on his day a sublime writer. Z

Rob Williams. Z

Tough one, but Smith wins out on the sheer daring and imagination of his work: For Firekind alone, one of the most beautiful and poignant stories ever set to paper.  But really tough call, early Nemises with Mills and O'Neill was simply breathtaking. Z

We love you Bab's, we do; oh, oh Bab's, we love you! Z

Jesus, you guys giving out about swivel eyed DUP head the balls. I have to live here with them in power.  They are an admixture of utter greed and bat-shit lunacy, yer man (scarcely) speaks for many, many people in NI. Z

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... does anyone know what a flock of crows is properly
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I thought it was a "murder of crows", no?

Not if there's just caws...

Oh Shark, you card you. Z

oh, go on then....800,000,000 = approx 400,000,000 ; 400,000,000 = approx 140,000 and 130,000,000 = approx 80,000.
Space maths BTW. Z

My take simply is the evident inertia on behalf of the authorities has a purpose.  They've simply done a numbers game and figured 40 - 80% of the population will contract the virus and anywhere between 1 - 4% will die. 

They'll attempt to gradually raise the intensity of counter-measures in an effort to retard the spread and give medical services time to: A - Cope with the spread and B - Hopefully come up with a workable anti-virus treatment in 10 - 12 months time.

The difficulties are, I suppose, the arguably cynical nature of any numbers game where people and populations are concerned, coupled with the unknowns re the strength of the virus in question and the stresses on an already denuded public health infra-structure and the economy in general.  Z

Might take you up on that.  Z

Ditto,, we'll have a good chat. Even though I had food poissoning all weekend, I really enjoyed the time there last year.  I intend this year to get a few beers and meet as many people as I can. Z

Bolt01, I should be (bar Corona Virus restrictions) We have a table booked.  Z