Archives – 2005 – September – 13  

TELL ME THE FUCKING JOKE
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The premise behind the film The Aristocrats is that about 100 comedians all tell the same joke. It is not a very good joke. However it is a joke where the middle section is basically just a long scatalogical trawl through whatever the teller thinks w[…]

THE FT TOP 23 UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENA: 23: False Memory
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I don’t mean false memory syndrome as in the therapy definition. A dangerous buzzword: it allows the defense that childhood memories of abuse have been implanted by “predatory” psychologists. Could this happen? Well certainly, and w[…]

Stop This Custard Pie Madness
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Not THIS custard pie madness, obv. Seeing Jeremy Clarkson getting humiliated in public is clearly on of the finer things in life. Nevertheless the sad thing is that custard pies are not what they were. In as much as once upon a time they were more th[…]

Compare and Contrast
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Don’t Dumb Me Down pleads Ben Goldacre, decrying reporting of science stories, railing against straw humanities graduates misunderstanding and misreporting science stories
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Today’s front page main story which seems to show that humanit[…]

it is high time for a NEW BREAKAWAY SPORT
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in 1823 william webb-ellis “with a fine disregard for the rules of foopball” picked up the ball and ran and invented rugby blah blah zzz
cricket was evolved out of rounders by an evil RPG-infested think-tank (interestingly but unsurprisi[…]

Better start swimming or…
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Difficult times for English football. As television revenues decline, players’ wages don’t. These same players, pampered and arrogant, inhabit the gossip pages of the newspapers more often than the sports pages. The public, irked by the p[…]

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  2. Count me as one of the people oddly affected by issue 300. Although... The thing I most remember about this…