Is it OK to make half arsed jokes about miners yet?
Is the rumour true that the miners were actually part of a new TV reality show and that they were both really pissed to be eliminated in a double eviction this morning. "We were just starting to get the hang of living in a cage when we heard someone with a deep voice say that it was 'time to go'. It can only have been Big Brother." They were also disappointed to find that it was only Mel & Kochie that were there to greet them and that Gretel was nowhere to be seen.

Others of course have seen the real reason they stayed underground; the chance to meet Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters who has invited the two miners to join him for a beer when they are freed. Dave will no doubt also be looking up the mine spokesperson who said the miners had received iPods with their favourite music. "Apparently, one is Foo Fighters - I'm showing my age, 'cause I don't know who they are. It is country and western, I believe... "

Or were they delayed because someone gave them two shovels and told them to take their pick...

And talking of trapped in things, illusionist David Blaine was rescued out of his water-filled sphere in New York today after failing to hold his breath for a world record-breaking nine minutes, he blacked out after seven minutes (how half arsed of you David). His doctor said he "... did not appear to have sustained any brain damage." Given that Blaine has previously spent 44 days in a box suspended over the River Thames in London, 61 hours encased in a block of ice as well as one week buried in a coffin, I am not sure how they could actually tell! Todays stunt was billed as "Drowned Alive"; obviously he failed.