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THE DADDINO FAMILY TREASURY OF CHRISTMASES PAST
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THE DADDINO FAMILY TREASURY OF CHRISTMASES PAST
Christmas 1972

Bobby looks very solemn with his Snoopy pajamas and Bicentennial kitsch drum, but sooner rather than later that drum’s gonna a receive a whack too hard and off to the trash it goes[…]

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THE SQUARE TABLE 24 / BRIAN MCFADDEN – “Irish Son”
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Pop Factor: 258 Controversy Rating: 214
Brian McFadden’s two-fisted attack on the Catholic Church is a braver and more lucid political statement than anything, say, Bono has ever managed. That it’s also part of the most naked grab for cr[…]

The Advent Calendar of Christmas Films #3: Scrooged
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(Oh, a key bit of business. Whilst this is a list of Christmas films, they are not all about Christmas. Instead they are Christmassy films, films which remind us of Christmas and sometimes films which are always on at Christmas. The usual veto and no[…]

The Bad Game
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The Bad Game (as we have taken to calling Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas) has received surprisingly little coverage here on Freaky Trigger. This is possibly because those of us who own it haven’t had time for blogging due to playing the damn th[…]

Pub Science Experiment #1 Pub 4: The Bow Bells, Bow Rd, E3
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Pub Science Experiment #1
Pub 4: The Bow Bells, Bow Rd, E3
Category: Nearly Railway
A few yeards from Bow Church DLR, and a few more from Bow Road tube, this pub is much more like it. I laugh when I see some more tongue and groove but this is old and[…]

PCGMwatch: November 2004
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PCGMwatch: November 2004
Mental state of political correctness worse than ever!
– “Sydney Scrooge” accused of “political correctness gone mad” – her crime was to put a Christmas tree in the City Hall at Christmas. […]

Real Bet’n Balompie
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Real Bet’n Balompie
More top comedy from Spain:
http://sport.independent.co.uk/football/european/story.jsp?story=588801
Can’t they resurrect Greavsie’s Gaff to get these people in for an interview? I hereby volunteer to do interpret[…]

FT TOP 100 FILMS 5: WAYNE’S WORLD
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FT TOP 100 FILMS
5: WAYNE’S WORLD
I saw Wayne’s World in Oxford at a midnight preview screening when I was a student (George Street, Screen 1 which was huge before it was parcelled into six screens). The week before I had seen a midnight scre[…]

Cryptic Clue Corner
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Cryptic Clue Corner
Mysteriousness from Popjustice: “there are five utterly amazing new tracks due out next year which will blow each and every one of your heads off. We’re not really allowed to tell you anything about them – althou[…]

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