Archives – 2005 – August – 18  

Day 43: Drinking In LA
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 LOUSY TUNES
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California apparently knows how to party. Which would probably explain why much of the countryside was a wasteland with just the odd beer can and paper-cup knocking about. Considering the number of people who lived their, a party that size would requ[…]

FOOD SCIENCE DAY
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Its been a while during which various arrangements were made, but finally the basic details of FOOD SCIENCE DAY can be outlined. An idea patched together on the night of Rob Bolton’s leaving party, you could not stop some of our foodie friends […]

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Beware the wrath of…ABZORBALOFF
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Whose power is to absorb (Do You See!). Bah an nine year old could invent a better monster than that! Or at least, that monster. The parasitic relationship that Blue Peter always had with Doctor Who continues apace. In a “design a monster&#8221[…]

real actual proper sport art commemorates little-known kickabout
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we demand a PICTURE
UPDATE: ok now the story has a picture (which haha totally undermines the CLEVER YET KOMIKAL lead graf) so the story must be savoured for other reasons viz the quote from Daily Post art critic Philip “i don’t get it&#8[…]

“87. Name one coloring, drawing or printing mistake in the Tintin books”
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while googlin for obscure stuff connected to what mr g.galloway famously called mr c.hitchens recently, i discovered this VERY THOROUGH160-question tintin trivia quiz
plus also it has VERY HARD picture quizzes! viz a tintin flag quiz and a tintin SPL[…]

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