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Supping Shearer
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— 30 May 2006 Pete Baran Comment

I have on my desk a bottle of Newcastle Brown Ale. I am not a huge Broon fan, but it certainly has a place in British beer history. But this bottle is special, which is why it is on my desk (I am not usually found with beer on my desk at work, and th[…]

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annals of higher pedantry #123,45.678 subsector 9bii
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— 30 May 2006 mark sinker Comment

Journey to the Centre of the Earth was on TV at the weekend — the one with James Mason, Pat Boone and Gertrude the Duck — and I watched it at my dad’s. I realised I had only ever read it in Look and Learn form, and that my conceptio[…]

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