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Ah, how I enjoyed it
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— 5 Jul 2004 Tim Comment

Ah, how I enjoyed it, what a beautiful game of football. I enjoyed it all the more for watching it with a couple of “this is how football should be played” merchants, defenders of the dangle, who didn’t understand how football could[…]

YES BUT, the Head of Steam
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— 5 Jul 2004 Sarah Comment

YES BUT, the Head of Steam on request will do you POUTINE! I.e; they will do you chips with CHEESE AND GRAVY! The barstaff seemed somewhat perplexed by our Canadian themed request on Friday night (whot, didn’t they KNOW it was Canada day that w[…]

ADDIS ADDENDUM
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— 5 Jul 2004 Pete Baran Comment

ADDIS ADDENDUM
Much is said about how waiting stuff are put upon. Much is said about the terrible pay, conditions and hours with which they suffer. Yet I note below nothing has been said about the lack of basic ability of our initial waitress we had […]

Science, you’ve gone too far this time.
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— 5 Jul 2004 Tom Comment

Science, you’ve gone too far this time.[…]

Addis, Kings Cross
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— 5 Jul 2004 Tom Comment

Addis, Kings Cross: “Laid back service” but “great food” at this Ethopian place, according to web reports – OK, sounds fair enough, we have the whole evening after all. And the decor is just right – long couches, s[…]

Enuff already with the Daleks.
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— 5 Jul 2004 Pete Baran Comment

Enuff already with the Daleks. How about talking about a more contemporary kids show. One which is altogether more bonkers that even Doctor Who was in its turning Tom Baker into a cactus days. Saturday morning kids TV has become a playground of halfh[…]

“Dalek-like behaviour”
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— 5 Jul 2004 Tom Comment

“Dalek-like behaviour”: no sign of this on the Times website, so this is quoted without comment from a (koff) prominent Dr Who news website: ‘According to an article in the June 26 The Times, Sylvester McCoy, with the help of Camden[…]

At the risk of turning DYS into the Dalek Blog…
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— 5 Jul 2004 Alan Comment

This “owning” of the characters appears to be unique to British TV and I’d love to know exactly how far it goes in copyright law. Terry Nation’s copyright claim is based on him typing the work “Dalek” and attributi[…]

Well, that was fun
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— 5 Jul 2004 Tom Comment

Well, that was fun.
Headline watch: many variations on “Acropolis Now”, and both the big tabloids went for “Grecian 2004”. The winner though is surely The Sun’s “YOU’RE ATHEN A LAUGH”.
Isabel has fallen[…]

My turn. I’m Bill, whom some people know as Tep
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— 5 Jul 2004 Bill Comment

My turn.
I’m Bill, whom some people know as Tep from abbreviating my last name, and I’ve been thinking all weekend about what on Earth to post about, while being engrossed by cooking: it’s Independence Day, and a holiday for me is p[…]

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