Rugby poll -thoughts

A few observations:

• Northern hemisphere folk aren't much interested in southern hemisphere rugby despite the fact that it's usually much better! In fact, the overwhelming popularity of the Six Nations is quite a surprise given how many really poor games that tournament produces.
  
  
• The sample is too small to establish if the converse is true but my experience would suggest so. Oddly, the only Kiwi responding appears not to know what rugby is.
  
  
• Only a quarter of the people who claimed to follow the Six Nations follow any kind of non-international rugby. This tends to confirm my belief that below international level, the European game is a bit of a shambles. I don't have the data but I'd be really surprised if only a quarter of people who follow the Trinations, follow Super 14.

The answer to TMOACC

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The mother of all crossword clues

From today's Grauniad prize crossword:

"New rich don't let Ladybird help in Thailand with gin and it - good cocktail - new, possibly his memento" (if anyone 22 I'm de-11-ing 16 across) (11,4,4,1,2,5,2,4,4,4,3)

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I'll put the answer behind a cut in comments.

ETA: No I won't I can't get a cut to work in comments.

More fuzzy kittens

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