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Why are you running down that corridor aimlessly.
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Why are you running down that corridor aimlessly.
Because we want to, because we want to.[…]

The BBC Health News website
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The BBC Health News website seems obsessed with doctors clothes. Nary two weeks after the ground breaking Doctors Shouldn’t Wear Jeans story we have the more frightening Ties Carry Deadly Diseases. There is a vague point in the second story, ti[…]

Tanya’s Round of Rubbish: Bomb The Bass
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Oh, I know people pronounce it bass as in bass guitar, but originally it was Bomb The Bass, to rhyme with ass which describes Tim Simenon perfectly. A man with little musical talent, he became aware in the mid-eighties that computers and samplers wer[…]

FT Top 100 Films 96: THE GODFATHER PART II
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Lookee here Sight’n’Sound. The Godfather is a different film to The Godfather Part II. As such you cannot just roll them into one film to make up for the fact nothing as recent got any votes at all and to sneak something new into your top[…]

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WOULD YOU ELECT
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WOULD YOU ELECT THIS (or any other) PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS?[…]

The curse of “Of course”.
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The curse of “Of course”. The urge to write “of course” during an essay or a piece is one which comes out of pure arrogance. It is suggesting that you know something that everyone knows, appealing to the intelligence of the re[…]

FREILAND – “Hot Love (Justus Köhncke Remix f/ Meloboy)”
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Since mentioning my Tarkus mural in the neverending Kompakt thread on ILM, my inbox has been flooded with inquiries as to how I obtained such a thing. For the sake of convenience, I’ll respond here.
My wife and I were approached by the staff of[…]

I don’t much like watching the tennis.
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I don’t much like watching the tennis. It’s not the game for me. I like epic one-on-one struggles, tests of nerve and skill and emotional strength as much as the next blogger but I think the darts provides all that much more effectively. […]

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THE POWERPUFF GIRLS – Saving The World Before Bedtime
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We found this boardgame in a charity shop at the weekend. It’s a lavish game with good production values and a nice game mechanism, very similar to the much-loved Judge Dredd Boardgame. Players, controlling any or all the PPGs at a time, move a[…]

TANYA’S ROUND OF RUBBISH THE B-52’s
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TANYA’S ROUND OF RUBBISH
THE B-52’s
In order of preference, your B-52’s in full:
a) A super flying fortress of a bomber responsible with the ability to destroy much of the world or at least the world in the mid-fifties when it was a[…]

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  1. I appreciate the author’s insights! I played the Sprunki game today, and it was awesome. Highly recommend it! No matter…