Sigh
I’m bored of the puns QOTW already and see that this may burn out before the start of next week. So on a totally unrelated note I thought I would tell you about when I went to visit my mate a few months ago.

My ex housemate Rob is an astronomer. It’s actually quite amusing as when we lived together during his college term he showed sod all common sense and I thought he had no chance of achieving anything other than a job at the local Netto stacking shelves.

He managed to do well, ace his course, storm through uni and managed to become part of the British Space program (According to him us Brits do quite a bit when it comes to assisting other countries launch unmanned satellites).

Anywhoo enough of the back-story. I also enjoy looking at the night sky and when Iget the chance (And Rob is allowed) I go along to have a look through high powered telescopes at nearby galaxies- As ai am a member of the public Rob points it and I just look. Yes this may sound dull to some but I love it. This night in question, I looked into the telescope and noticed a small discoloured star that I hadn’t been told about. At first I thought I may have discovered a new asteroid, planet, moon or UFO (I can dream can't I) but Rob was a bit sceptical and went to check up on it.

Turned out that the light source in question was actually a distant star and had been sponsored by some relatives of an Ex Reading keeper who played sometime during the 70’s but died of cancer back in 2003.

Despite being told this I still thought Rob was wrong due to the colour of the object and proposed that it may actually be something else like the light refelcting off a moon.

Rob then looked me sternly in the eye and said to me Mon….that’s not a moon……that’s the Steve Death star.

Two bad (And untrue) ones from me this week so far……sorry
(mon bison powered by magnets, Fri 6 Mar 2009, 10:25, Reply)