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[insert mufc employee/owner here] ON THIN ICE
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I judge that the above headline will be used many times over the winter, with said employee/owner pictured/photoshopped here. also it’s not exactly somerset house is it? a scabby carpark on the edge of manchester…[…]

All The Bees Are Ded
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RIP Helen Cresswell, author of The Bagthorpe Saga, which made me larff so much as an 11-year old that I’ve never dared go back and try reading it again.[…]

WHO BUILT THE MOON WATCH: Chapter 6
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For those who are getting worried that the book is just a tease vis a vis moon builders, note there are 14 Chapters in Who Built The Moon, the tease is part of the game. Chapter 6: entitled The Living Earth continues the tease. Apropos to nothing thi[…]

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FOLK RESCUE WORK
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scorsese wz a good choice of dylan doc-director for any number of reasons of course, but one might just be the way BE MY BABY kicks off mean streets – seeing as MS has a clear gift for making you rehear songs
not much to say abt the portrait o[…]

People Boycott Film In Which People Are Portrayed In a Negative Light
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Okay, not ALL people, but flight attendants. Or as well like to call ’em, trolley dollies aka air stewardesses. Apparently the Jodie Foster “The Lady Vanishes” rip-off Flightplan portrays some air stewards as being rude, insensitive[…]

EAT PIES!
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As in PIES from the ungooglable pseudo-pret café chain EAT, rather than what was written on the pitch-side hoardings in “billy the fish” strips.
Unfortunately as I reached the counter the turkey and stuffing ones sold out, and I didn&#82[…]

Mysterious Stuff – The Equator
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I’m not a scientific guy. The physics questions on University Challenge make me feel nauseous and my continuing ignorance is only validated by the Oxfam models who answer them.
But, with the equator, I want to understand. One foot north of the […]

WHO REVIEWS #7: Vampire hunters in Stoke-on-Trent?
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GOTH OPERA by Paul Cornell, featuring the Fifth Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa… or is it?!
“The age of humanity on this world has come to an end. The long night is starting. The age of the undead is upon us”.
First things first. You’ll be hearing mo[…]

The Incredible World of Uri-Geller.com
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When faced with writing about Uri Geller, it is hard not to fall into the trap of sounding perpeptually sarcastic. The man is a massive fraud. As such it’s hard to take any of his claims seriously and it’s ever so tempting[…]

WHO BUILT THE MOON WATCH: Chapter 5
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Just when it looked like we had a breakthrough in Chapter 4, chapter 5 goes off on yet another – “wow, isn’t the moon amazing” tangent. It firstly examines the old wives tale that people go nuts at full moon, find substantial […]

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