Dulce et Decorum Est

      This significant, late-breaking news is just in from Ananova:

Tom doesn't want to know the price of knickers

Tom Jones has asked women who come to his concerts to in future remove the price tag before they throw knickers onstage.

Jones, 64, told a female fan at a gig at Las Vegas' Hollywood Theatre, "Luv, you're supposed to remove the price tag before you throw it, otherwise that takes all the fun out of it."

The Welsh singer has just finished a sold-out engagement at Vegas' MGM Grand Hotel.

Yes, ladies, please-- a little courtesy! I know it just depresses me to no end when women toss their undergarments at me, La Senza markers still on them. I always get hit in the eye with those ink-spraying anti-shoplifting thingamabobbers. And if I want to be hit in the eye by something in your underwear, it surely wouldn't be one of those things.  

      And, ladies, please don't throw the soiled ones, either. They can be horribly distracting. That happened in a lecture once, and I was off my game for a whole thirty seconds.

      In other news, it seems Mr. Jones isn't the only one embarking on a futile project.   All considered, there has to be an irony to a zoo director -- managing birds no less -- named Kueck.

Doctor J's-- the ONLY place to read about the Pope, Tom Eliot, ladies' britches AND gay penguins all in the same day.   Even Fark is going to leave at least one of those out.