According to Gavyn Davies, chief economist at Goldman Sachs, the unanticipated depth of the British recession, the strength of Germany's post-unification boom, and the lack of co-operation from the Bundesbank and the French government in helping Britain to secure an ERM-wide realignment all highlighted serious, previously unrecognised, flaws in the ERM.
Of the eight footballers to have asteroids named after them, 10634_Pepibican, so-named after the Czech-Austrian striker Josef Pepii" Bican and loitering about in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, is the largest with a radius of, erm, 20km.
Click on the link provided and you discover the luckless reviewer receiving a lashing was, erm, Stephen Pritchard, who leads a challenging but honourably conducted double life as enraptured muso and implacable fault-finder general.
Wikileaks entered the fray to accuse Hillary of plagiarising their own logo, which also, erm, features a red arrow.
Yes, step forward Lord Nash, who manages somehow to combine his governorship roles with running the Future academies chain and being, erm, the minister responsible for academies across England.
Erm... It's safe to say that twerking would not have been one of the world's most popular search terms this year if it had been left to Clive Palmer rather than Miley Cyrus.
Pressed by Ferrari to explain how the party would pay for its policy of building 500,000 new council houses, Bennett spluttered: "Right, well, that's, erm... you've got a total cost... erm... that we're... that will be spelled out in our manifesto".
"Look," he begins, "I'm not going to say to you that I understand, because... well, erm, I don't".
If Richard Mourdock is your man, just add a red tie with, erm, the confederate stars on – if anyone takes offence and starts an argument, just remind yourself it's God's will.
Erm, what was the question?
Most economists regard the collapse of the ERM five years ago as proof that such regimes cannot work.
