Inanity of the body snatchers

Feel like being amused in a scary, flesh-creeping way? That's right, I'm talking about the Tom Cruise Scientology video. It's been pulled off Youtube and quite a few sites, but you can still catch it here. (It doesn't seem to be embeddable or I'd be hosting it myself.)

You need to read the comments to find out what an SP is, but you've probably been one all your life and don't even know it.

Mnemonics

I've noticed that many of my labels (the little words at the bottom of each post - I know you knew, but still...) have only been used once. This seems a very uneconomical practice, so I thought I'd try to boost the numbers of a few by reviving a mnemonics exercise I was taught many years ago. It goes like this. If you want to remember something you should associate it with something else in as kinetic, colourful and, if possible, obscene a way as possible.

Now I'm not going to do this for you. I'm simply going to give you the pairs of words and let you do the associating. Here goes (and I'll start with an easy one):

Borghezio - buttplug
Larry Craig - body snatchers
bars - pottery
circumcision - Paris Hilton
Ratzinger - very dark cave
fatwa - eucharist
heritage - dementia
Rupert Everett - soap

I'll be testing you in the weeks to come. Don't let me down.

Where are you, Kevin McCarthy, when we need you?

Flying back from London on Ryanair this morning I noticed that three members of the cabin crew had identical blemishes on the back of their necks. Naturally, I thought of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Is this an isolated case? Or has anyone else noticed the tell-tale sign of alien occupation on no-frills airlines?