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Key Fact Obscured From Statistic
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— 24 Jan 2006 Pete Baran Comment

I don’t know what the response rate is to Bodyform’s latest hard hitting billboard campaign. “1 IN 5 WOMEN ARE LET DOWN EVERY MONTH BY THEIR SANITARY PROTECTION”. It seems like a rallying call nevertheless, and one which may m[…]

British Girls (okay, not Welsh) quite violent shocker
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— 23 Jan 2006 Pete Baran Comment

In a league table for under fifteen-year-old incidences of violence, English girls come fifth in the world and Scottish sixth. This assumes they did best in the quarter finals. Eastern Europe seems to lead the way with Hungary, Estonia and Lithuania […]

A Cock And Bull’s Paedophile Charter
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— 23 Jan 2006 Pete Baran Comment

Winterbottom’s Cock And Bull Story is, as you would expect from the director of Nine Songs, happily explicit when it comes to both bulls and cocks. And whilst the bulls come into it near the end the cocks are liberally peppered in the film. The[…]

SOUP TO WATCH 13 EPS OF DR WHO BY
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— 22 Jan 2006 mark sinker Comment

You will need: Five potatoes (floury; medium size — one can be small!) Young-leaf spinach (half a salad bag) One ripe avocado Three small onions Chicken or veg stock cube (actually I used matigold swiss vegetable bouillon powder) Chilli Oil But[…]

WE HAVE COME FOR YOUR KRILL!
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— 20 Jan 2006 mark sinker Comment

oh you humans, confusing SPECIES-WAR INVASION SCOUTS for something cute and quirky — so complacent, so puny[…]

excuses in an age of digital reproduction
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— 20 Jan 2006 mark sinker Comment

“oh oh i’m sorry i have not delivered my review as promised [= have missed THIRD re-negotiated deadline], the text disappeared from my computer somehow but IT is workin to recover it” = THE DOG ATE MY HOMEWORK[…]

An Open Letter To God
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— 19 Jan 2006 Pete Baran Comment

And clearly using this hotline to God for good purpose, Robert Kirkman demands that the Transporter 3 be made.
Shows an admirable judge of priorities.[…]

A Tale Of Two Restaurants
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— 19 Jan 2006 Pete Baran Comment

I have a rule, not often tested, where I won’t go to two restaurants in one day. It is mainly a rule based on financial prudence, but yesterday when I broke the rule other things became apparent. You eat out twice in one day it stops being spec[…]

Heroes Of Food Science
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— 18 Jan 2006 Tom Comment

1. The geezer who made pikachu cheese shapes
(except they all look disgusting, and kind of not much like a pikachu, maybe if you put MARMITE on the brie to create his stripes!)[…]

Best Opening Conversation In A Film Ever
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— 18 Jan 2006 Pete Baran Comment

(Only slightly spoiled in that it was originally a play).
From Possible Worlds, an artsy fartsy sci-fi film which I really rather enjoyed, though it never gets quite as good as this three-liner:
COP: Looks like a murder and robbery.
HIS BOSS: What wa[…]

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