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Faux Magners
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Imagine. In trying to find a picture of the new Strongbow brand Sirrus I came across this website onlyfinebeer.co.uk which, and I quote:

Onlyfinebeer encourages its users to express their fondness for beer, by allowing them to write nice words about[…]

Respect is due
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Happy Birthday Harriet[…]

Hey Mr Science The Clue Is In The Name
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Being cold might make you get cold, SCIENTISTS REVEAL. My irritation with THIS SORT OF THING is summed up in the final sentence – “Mothers can now be confident in their advice to children to wrap up well in winter” b/c of course the[…]

Theft (or as we call it friends borrowing and not returning)
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The average number of CD’s owned in the UK is 126. The average number of those CD’s which have had to be replaced due to theft, loss or accidental melting because they fell down the back of the radiator is 36.
What a wasteful society we l[…]

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“did i remember to tell you that science is WEIRDER and MORE EXCITING than is dremt of in yr PLAYSTATION? well DID I? bcz IT IS!!”
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apparently the above — first ep broadcast on c4 on saturday — is based on a SCIENCE MUSEUM EXHIB’n which fellow citizens of the Freaky Trigan Empire enjoyed well i watched it w.my dad — though he wisely slept through the entir[…]

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NUMB3RS-W4TCH: supplemental
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“Hitchens then turned the subject back to Chalabi, his good friend. I asked him if he thought Chalabi had been passing American intelligence to the Iranians. “No,” he insisted. “It’s possible that with his training, you[…]

Afternoon radio research – Pt 1
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Today I was listening to Radio 1 on the web — research purposes only, of course — and a caller managed to break through the hurried sheen of the Colin and Edith program with a heartfelt message to her boyfriend, who not only made her feel[…]

Invasion: Earth : Rubbish
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The nineties was a pretty quiet era for British TV Sci-fi. Still convinced that genetically they could only do crap special effects, and wary of cost, the output that did limp out was remarkably parochial. And often remarkably poor. Invasion: Earth ([…]

Tiger Power
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Continuing our brand xtension theme, I offer you TONY’S TIGER POWER, a brand extension of Frosties, at least by name and cartoon mascot. Tiger Power promises 1) low sugar 2) no added salt 3) wholegrain energy and if you were presented with a bo[…]

When Moomins were Trolls
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Tove Jansson wrote the first Moomin adventure in 1945. Titled The Little Trolls and the Great Flood, it was a prototype for the Moominvalley books and has remained untranslated offline ever since. To celebrate the 60th anniversary, a Finish publisher[…]

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