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People keep trying to start up light rail here but it's really hard to come up with a practical plan. The city is so spread out that every plan combines high cost with small coverage.

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And since World's Most Expensive Food Things are always on-topic -- the world's most expensive pancake!

CHEF Alex Lovell has created a pancake for Shrove Tuesday for those with expensive taste.

It costs a pan-sizzling £95.

Alex, aged 21, who turned down a job with Gordon Ramsay to join the Earlsdon Cottage, in Warwick Street, used some of the bar's costliest ingredients to come up with his gourmet recipe.

He said: "I just wanted to make something really special for Pancake Day.

"I don't know whether we will sell any - it does cost about a tenner a mouthful - but a few of our customers shared one and thought it was wonderful.

"The jelly accompanying the pancake contains Dom Perignon Champagne, which costs £110 a bottle, the fruit, black cherries, strawberries and raspberries, are flambéed in Louis XIV cognac which costs £100 a shot, the batter contains Madagascar vanilla pods, which cost a fiver a pod. And it's all accompanied by amaretto ice cream."

[Between the champagne, the cognac, and the amaretto, it sounds to me like an excuse to get smashed at breakfast, doesn't it?]

Seriously cool. I wish I could fly.

Yeah, that was pretty much my reaction too!

What I want to know is why I've seen the damned fall of Pompeii eight kajillion times, yet missed the Eagle thing.

I remember watching a Nova ep on the red-tailed hawks returning to Central Park. They had shots of the birds flying silhouetted in the blue sky, and my cat was fascinated, sitting in front of the TV with her paws lifted to pin down the flying birds on the screen.

We can still point, and mock and laugh though, right?

Well, my kind of emo is a little less "woe, I am sensitive and glum and have unfortunate hair" and a little more "boys in eyeliner being somewhat angsty and also kind of vindictive, and also being somewhat overly affectionate with their bandmates."

sitting in front of the TV with her paws lifted to pin down the flying birds on the screen.

Hah!

We had one who wasn't interested in birds on tv. No, she went insane over jets. So we'd put it on one of the air force heavy channels and watch her fall off the tv and completely exhaust herself.

[Between the champagne, the cognac, and the amaretto, it sounds to me like an excuse to get smashed at breakfast, doesn't it?]

They are British. I was watching a show on teaching European etiquette to Americans, and one of the things that was pointed out to people going to France was not to have two drinks during the cocktail hour before dinner because "everyone will think you're either an alcoholic or English."

Lori, Have you seen Attenborough's Life of Birds series? It's seriously cool.

wow Kathy! That is awesome. You've been working so hard, it's great to see results like that.

Most of it is shot in-studio.

I figured for some, but that doesn't seem to work with, for example, 100 foot dives.

Is there a lot of green-screening onto actual outdoors stuff? Both close yet in forests, and birds-eye aerials of ground?