The answer to all your prayers

Hello again, it may seem unusual that I'm posting two days in a row...but I'm just posting now in reply to all my fanmail! Phew! I'm really flooded with them! Keep up the good work guys, I appreciate it! And I'll keep on appreciating it as long as none of you send me letter bombs or other varieties of threatening letters...

Anyway, here goes with the answers. Jing, why do you think you should have gotten a job earlier? There was exams and uni and all that! So you're forgiven. And I think I wasn't in that chatty a mood yesterday at all!

In case some of you have forgotten, the Simpsons competition (a.k.a. Quotemania) is still going, but no one's gotten the latest quote! Scroll down a bit to see it. Margaret thought it was Bart, but it wasn't. I'm waiting for the right answer here.

Oh, and seeing as Jean's requested a bit of information on army rankings, I might as well delve into other bits of army knowledge I've picked up over my four years as a cadet. But first the ranks (increasing in rank):

• Private
• Lance-Corporal
• Corporal
• Sergeant
• Staff Sergeant (I'm not too sure on this one)
• Warrant Officers (class 1 and 2) a.k.a. Sergeant-Major (I'm not too sure on this one either)
• 2nd Lieutenant
• Lieutenant
• Captain
• Major
• Lieutenant Colonel
• Colonel
• Lieutenant-General
• Major-General
• General
• Field Marshall (in some armies but not the Australian one)

Anyway, something that's been drummed into me by my cadet mentors has been that most of Hollywood is stupid (although it doesn't take a genius to work that out). That is, the use of "over and out" (as is rife throughout movies) is acutally incorrect. For you see, "over" implies the conversation continues whereas "out" means the conversation will be terminated. Now play spot the contradiction. Anyway, to cut a long(er) story short(er) "over" and "out" don't mix. Anyway, there are many, many other radio procedures that have to be followed, but if you're really interested then ask me...otherwise there will be no more on the topic.

Oh and one more thing. In reply to Jean once more: I am aware that blogs don't need to be about what you've done. In fact, I hate having to blog about that. It's so boring to type up and probably is no better to read. Unless of course it was something really totally cool or I have some neat way of making it so...but alas, I've lost my blogging spirit. So much so that I can't even find anything else- frustrations or whatever- to blog about. Absolutely nothing comes to mind...damn...this post is another boring one. I might have to take a break from it all. Go on blogging vacation (I'm not dead, I'm just on vacation!).

Argh alright I'll quit while I'm ahead and bid you all a good life!

To be continued...(perhaps)