Archives – 2018 – December  

Wiki-illiams Quizz 2018. Round 1
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— 31 Dec 2018 Alan 13 comments

RUBRIC: welcome to the FreakyTrigger wing of a quiz sat for a hundred and funfty years by some lucky/isle of man schoolkids etc blah blah bloop. Themed sets of 10 questions each — a new one every day (or so). COLLABORATIN’ COMMENT CREW (C[…]

The Freaky Trigger Movie Poll 2018
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— 18 Dec 2018 Pete Baran 2 comments

“Hi I am an absence of a framing device, and welcome to the annual Freaky Trigger Film and TV Polls”
Thanks, absence of a framing device and welcome to the fourth annual film poll and the second TV poll. The rules are simple – rank your top twe[…]

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The 20th Freaky Trigger Annual Between Christmas And New Year Pub Crawl: The Holloway Road Poker
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— 16 Dec 2018 Pete Baran 14 comments

(A poker as in the kind that comes from a set with a shovel, and a brush that is more ornamental than useful when setting a fire)
Twenty years of the Freaky Trigger Annual Between Christmas And New Year Pub Crawl (or the #FTABCANYPC) and this year we[…]

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Omargeddon #5: Cryptomnesia
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— 15 Dec 2018 Bec Comment

Most Omar Rodríguez-López albums are released under his name, but there a few variations: El Trío de Omar Rodríguez-López, the Omar Rodríguez-López Quartet, the Omar Rodríguez-López Quintet, and when touring, the Omar Rodríguez-López Group[…]

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when the gang chooses you: or how the
puffin club turned me into a punk rocker
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— 7 Dec 2018 mark sinker 4 comments

[This post originally went up at my PATREON: subscribers get to read posts and hear podcasts early — and help offset costs and time and help me do more of this kind of thing. Please share widely and encourage participation in the comments!]
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The Freaky Trigger Readers’ Poll 2018
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— 2 Dec 2018 katstevens 10 comments

“Greetings, I am the renowned, cross-eyed clairvoyant, Mystic Meg. I’m here, to predict, in a deliberately awkward intonation, that the numbers 3826546, and i, and the colour “bergerac”, will be impoooortant. People who stock […]

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