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What was I saying about Torquay?
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— 26 Apr 2006 Pete Baran Comment

Okay, here’s what I was saying about Torquay, basically that I don’t believe they will go down as they are perennial escape artists of the bottom division, especially when Barnet are involved.
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21st Century Quaint?
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— 26 Apr 2006 Pete Baran Comment

There are pubs called things like The Spinning Jenny – which seem to celebrate some stage in British industrial evolution. And I bet they were not named just as said Jenny’s were new thrusting things in the world. Therefore I cannot help […]

Don’t Let Sean Bean Sire Your Daughter
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— 26 Apr 2006 Pete Baran Comment

(People don’t use “sire” in that context much anymore. Actually, I guess they don’t use the word sire in any context that much any more.)
Why? Well in two Sean Bean films in one month, he has a daughter, said daughter gets mix[…]

Back! Back!! Bactria!!!
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— 26 Apr 2006 Tom Comment

Tom Holland’s Rubicon, a romping story of the Roman Republic’s endgame, was one of my top reads last year so I was relishing getting stuck into Persian Fire, which gives the treatment to the Persian Wars. Holland’s strengths as a hi[…]

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