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iJamming!
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iJamming!: you can’t keep a good magazine down. Jamming! despite the noxious title was a class ‘zine from the late 70s and early 80s, now almost forgotten, but its ex-editor Tony Fletcher maintains a website with some old excerpts and new[…]

The Armadillo illegal?
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The Armadillo illegal? Much as supping on the wrong side of the law might make me look harder, I refute the allegation that the ‘dillo falls foul of the 1963 Act. The recipe for the Cider A is as follows: take a pint of cider and a single sherr[…]

Crivens, I turn my back…
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Crivens, I turn my back… Right, since I am the only one round here to hold a British Institute of Innkeepers National Licensee’s Certificate I can clear up the first of the many pub based questions. Namely : is snakebite illegal. Well the[…]

By sheer coincidence, Saturday night saw me exploring 2 previously explored themes
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as follows:
1. In a bar in Sosho (Cargo on Rivington Street)
2. Waiting for mates (well, actually work colleagues but they are fairly decent chaps)
As far as (1) goes: imagine if you will…….. the year is 1992…… a young, scanti[…]

Gravy Train Derailed
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Gravy Train Derailed: Napster, inevitably, plans to start charging a membership fee.[…]

Am I Cool Or Not?
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Am I Cool Or Not?: a record-breaking 21 entries this week, but what is the verdict? And a new victim – get those guesses in![…]

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  2. Count me as one of the people oddly affected by issue 300. Although... The thing I most remember about this…