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Must We Throw This Filth At Our Fanfic Kids?
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Harry Potter pushes jellybean science TOO FAR.[…]

The International Irresponsible Drinking Exchange Scheme
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Tim Hopkins of this parish has been in Nashville for three days, count them, and already he is poluting their airwaves. Somehow he has found himself as a guest on Karaoke Blackout on WRVU . Still he gives FreakyTrigger a shout and has already invente[…]

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Let’s Remove The Arm Barring The Way To Poptimism
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That’s right, you heard it here now. The world famous, often imitated, always bettered, Freakytrigger Pop Music dancing and drinking club Poptimism has a new home. At least for a bit. Ousted cruelly by the new management at the Polar Bear a yea[…]

Straight from the kick-off. Really.
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It’s a cliche in football that a team is most vulnerable when they have just scored. It’s doubtful that the clichemongers had this in mind when thinking about just how vulnerable you can be.
It’s bound now to be described as like Be[…]

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National Talk Like A Pirate Day
The Internet’s own version of April Fool’s – but on September 19th. How long can we manage to keep our Pirate Filter in place…[…]

Climbing Up The News Ladder
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Have a country in turmoil? Want the world to know what is going on in your city? Want aid, want attention? WANT TO BE HEARD?
Well read the subtext of this little BBC editors blog piece. It starts off as a nice little compare and contrast piece, in th[…]

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Suckling Pig.
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Num Num.
Num Num.[…]

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Food Science Day Two: 2 – The Culinary Art of the Bad Pun Continued
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An ongoing Food Science Day enquiry is to determine whether tasty recipes can be derived from appalling puns. Previous experiments such as Lychees on Toast and the almost legendary Thymey Calaloo Dow’s Port have shown that there is much potential i[…]

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Serious Art Criticism
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Man dressed up as Terracotta Warrior infiltrates Terracotta Army for Art Sake. Well, really what other sake would there be? This would be one in the eye for Banksy if Banksy ever did anything in person*. But why can’t it just be called a practi[…]

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A Picture As Excitingly Familar As Its Title
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I initially became aware of the film DOA in the trailers for Crank. This was somewhat ironic as Crank owes an awful lot to another film called DOA with this terrific poster (and its remake, DOA directed by the people who brought us Max Headroom). Bu[…]

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