We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember John Stumbles
saying something like:

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk.d-i-y/browse_frm/thread/394b06104f1256fb/953e444d7ff96888?hl=en-GB&ie=UTF-8&q=cheeky+*******

Is it just me or do you have to create/have a google account to actually
read the contents of that link?

It's coming up fine for me, on a browser that knows nothing of any
google account.