Mr Kay admitted that "we have not yet found shiny, pointy things that I would call a weapon", but he insisted there was plenty of evidence of Saddam's intentions to reconstitute weapons programmes once free of international scrutiny.
On January 24 , 1848 James W. Marshall, a foreman working for Sacramento pioneer John Sutter, found shiny metal in the tailrace of a lumber mill Marshall was building for Sutter on the American River.
I do find the shiny surfaces and the box-shouldered 80s glitz baffling, but then I'm not there for the interiors.
"I want to go to America, find some shiny white boy and make him lick my boots," he said, getting in my face.
When it is launched, late in 2010, motorists who have bought the dream will awaken to find their shiny new Chevy Volts get around 50mpg in traffic.True, 50mpg is still pretty good for a roomy five-seater.
There they will find a shiny "Heattech tunnel" filled with eight styles of shirt (including something charmingly spelled a "chamisole"), arrayed sous-vide-style in transparent plastic pouches and infused with warming properties — like good old wool, but without the itch and annual heartbreak of moth holes.
At East Coast Media in Grimsby, Lia Nici, curriculum leader for media, says that, while the BBC is making a genuine effort to reach a diverse workforce, it is vital to understand that "some people find large shiny buildings scary: they find it hard enough to go through the doors of an FE college".
Even the most jaded of the 130,000 people braving the cacophonous sprawl of 2,700 exhibits, not to mention the millions of others following the show by way of the torrent of media coverage, always find some shiny gadget, blinking ever so seductively.
