Archives – 2005 – June – 15  

My Vagina Dentata Hell
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Ulp. South African ladies Bite Back. With special downstairs teeth. And I quote:
It had been designed with engineers, gynaecologists, psychologists and urologists. It was “hygienic – no human hands will be involved in the manufacture&#822[…]

For Alan
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Mystery of urine stained books
This is a job for Hercule Pissoir. Or Sam Sprayed.
We will return to normal service writing about proper book related issues as soon as Ananova stop having quirkies about pissing everywhere.[…]

The Tyranny Of Choice
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Menus are strange beasts. I am out at a restaurant and one is plunked infront of me, and I flip through its many pages. It rarely occurs to me to ask the waiter “what’s best”. Clearly something on there must be. But then if the chef[…]

The Unacceptable Face Of Racism
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Yet again, grey squirrels are being blamed for the falling populations of red squirrels – this time in Scotland. And the BBC are going along with the jingoistic, nationalistic reporting in their article on the subject. Apparently grey squirrels[…]

Continue the Geldof Irritation
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Tom might have stopped but I shall continue, mainly cos this isn’t a Live 8 post at all. Apart from maybe a joke I’ll make at the end about flogging tickets on eBay.
Other members of the Boomtown Rats are going to sue Bob for unpaid royal[…]

13 Going On Rubbidge
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There are plenty of stock film endings, which can be dusted off for service in your bog standard rom coms or sports films. Two in particular feature (poorly) in 13 Going On 30, aka Big For Birds (with slightly less of the creepy paedophilia angle). I[…]

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