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It’s the most talked-about feature on Freaky Trigger
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It’s the most talked-about feature on Freaky Trigger: Am I Cool Or Not? is back with its fourth brave/vain/idiotic/delete-as-neccessary pop kid for you to analyse, taste-wise. I’ll sort out the archives soon for latecomers.[…]

ADVENT CALENAR OF FILTH 8: ROY WOOD & WIZZARD – I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday
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ADVENT CALENAR OF FILTH
8: ROY WOOD & WIZZARD – I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday
The archetypal Christmas song in both its lack of any redeeming features and nonsensical lyrics. Shall we start with the non-philosophical problems here?[…]

How The Blue Posts Got Its Name
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Before Tom gets on to the Pub Of Failure, here is some information sent in by friend of the site Alex Thompson on the mystery of the Blue Posts name. (I rather like the sedan chair hailing stop explaination which I have a terrible feeling I may have […]

More end of year lists
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The Onion’s A.V.Club is always an interesting read, though with such a high-brow and snobbist tendancy that you certainly would not take anything they say without a pinch of salt. That said, they do revel in talking about bad things. After last[…]

Drinking Beer May Protect You From Cataracts
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From MSN. Of course drinking beer also has many other amazing health benefits as reported by the press in the last two years. Red wine reduces the chance of heart disease, breast cancer and cider prevents you from getting any mates.
Whither this kind[…]

O Martian! My Martian!
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I am a bit narked with the estimable DJ Martian (archives not working so you’ll have to scroll down). First of all he hypes his end-of-year list on the forum about five lengthy times and then doesn’t get it up, but more importantly he pos[…]

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