What's up and what's down this week
GOING UP
Graham LinehanHe wins an Emmy for The IT Crowd, still barely cracks a smile. That's our Graham.
The O2It's gonna make the old Point look like a barn. Which it was.
Twelvepoint.comA new site for screenwriters to swap ideas, write pitches and hone your craft.
Guineys The iconic Talbot Street store is selling Irish crystal glasses and bowls for a song.
Thank you cardsDid you really walk to the corner shop, buy a card, sign it, lick the stamp, stick it on and pop it in the letterbox? So much sweeter than e-mail or SMS.
Goose fatFor ultra crispy and rich-tasting roast potatoes.
GOING DOWN
Letterbox spammingWe have enough takeaway menus, thanks, and if we want to donate our old clothes we will take them to the charity shop . . . just to be sure.
NTL Phone HomeWe want to pay our bill, but if you wouldn't mind answering the phone when we call or calling us back . . . We have other things to do, thanks very much.
BushCheck out CNN's "Where's the Love?" on YouTube, and watch as W walks past Angela Merkel, Gordon Brown et al. No one shakes his hand.
Deceptive taxi lightsYou drive down the street with your big yellow light on, we wave like a lunatic only to find there's someone in your car.
'Friends' re-runsWe've moved on already, please make them stop!
One's legsIn those suddenly fashionable lacy tights, every woman's legs are that bit chillier.