banjaxed

Now, I have already raved at length about the 800 XCx, the off road-biased version of the 800, with its long travel suspension designed to soak up bumps, its spoked 21in front and 17in rear wheels to make handling less twitchy on dirt tracks, and because it's a lot easier replacing spokes in Baluchibackwardstan than finding a welder for banjaxed alloy wheels.

"Gay Byrne was on the radio every day going on about how banjaxed the country was and there just seemed to be no future for young people here."

Yes, we were banjaxed by the idea of a tea latte as well but when you think about it, chai tea lattes are big sellers at posho coffee shops so it was always going to happen, 90 calories.

ABERTILLERY: Commercial Hotel (01495 212310), Banjaxed. 7.45pm.

I sent him a list of six names Faith had published from The Boozer's Diary in the February 1979 Kickshaws: been elephants, brained, one-over-the-eight, banjaxed, miffy, newted.

Two-piece band Banjaxed entertained the guests in the evening.

Miradane, Whodoyouthink, Tillahow and the mare Banjaxed Girl all need to improve.

Within the first few minutes of his debut, Terry chested a ball down, dropped it on to his foot, looked up - and was banjaxed by three opponents at once, seeing stars like something out of a Wile E Coyote and Road Runner cartoon.

Into whose knowing hands should I put my banjaxed ear and broken self?

As long as there is no significant rain at Wincanton I am keen on the chances of Kerada (1.40) who has a big pull in the weights with Banjaxed Girl on Newbury running back in the spring.

Banjaxed Girl capped what has been a record-breaking season for local trainer Nigel Twiston-Davies when gamely making the raceodds.com Mares' Handicap Hurdle her sixth success from eight outings.

NAOMI MATTHEW: 2.30 Murphy, 3.00 Minella Theatre, 3.30 Banjaxed Girl, 4.00 Dansimar, 4.30 Front Of House, 5.00 Basford Bob.

Elsewhere, Akenson challenges the usual view of Mormonism as "fairly weird"--Smith declared Jesus preached in the United States right after his resurrection, for example--with some success: "In fact, Mormonism is no more banjaxed [broken] mentally than are any of the major western religions with which it competes: it's just that we are apt to be more familiar with these others, so they do not seem bizarre."

Forty years ago they stormed the British charts with Seven Drunken Nights, a bawdy folksong about being banjaxed on booze, and were flashed triumphantly across the pages of the popular music press in tandem with Jimi Hendrix, Cat Stevens and Frank and Nancy Sinatra.

'When I found out he was my half-brother I was banjaxed, it's the only word for it,' she said.