This Englishman I ran into started telling about the Queen's guards, how their statuesque until you touch them and then they'll bend you into a pretzel, and started to go into some detail when he had to beg off. Can someone elaborate just cos I'm sorta interested. (Maybe watching The Tudors last night piqued my Brit culture curiousity, I dunno.)

Oh, and an unrelated question. You guys know that feckin funny My Name is Alan something -r-another? Who stars in that? And how come it's gone? Or at least BBC America isn't showing it anymore. What's up with that?