[PASS THE PEAS.] I think I am the only one in the band who enjoys [black-eyed peas], ... When I am having a good soul-food meal, that is always on the menu. The guys aren't as fond of them. I think with them it's more of a metaphor.

All in the Downs the fleet was moored, / The streamers waving in the wind, / When black-eyed Susan came aboard.

Black Eyed Peas is a chameleon group.

[Ronaldo has returned to his native Madeira for the funeral and Fergie admitted he was not sure when the 20-year-old would be ready to return.] It's a difficult time for the boy, ... His dad was only 46. And it didn't help that Cristiano got the news when he was in Russia with Portugal.

Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns

And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.