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'Atomic weight of cobalt 58.9'
This from a landed multi-millionaire and without a hint of irony.
Spurs move right, said Fred's agent
Sizzling Gasquet batters sorry Fish
Fish Mardy from Del Potro battering
(we liked Mardy Fish losing badly at tennis, particularly if he also had a strop after)
For anybody with knowledge about British tennis out there, the following became a running joke which we rehashed at every opportunity.
Bogdanovic suffers first-round exit
That must have been used a mind-boggling number of times.
We also did subbing for Ceefax, with its extra paragraph - but I'll always have a bigger place in my heart for Teletext and its 40 x 24 character grids (for text, 35 for headlines).
Romantics ire after death of Ceefax
He makes that crazy statement Rumsfeld came up with about "unknown unknowns - things that we don't know that we don't know" seem like a proper sentence when you think Met Police are trawling through a database of 300,000,000 separate News International emails in East London as we speak, 11 million of which were deleted and then recovered.