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LESS PUBS MORE GRUB (runs away)
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v.neat and tastable SBD-friendly recipe
YOU NEED: salmon steaks (size as per M&S’s giant bag o’salmon) (ie strips 1 x 3″); young spinach leaves; eggs; dried chillis; butter; wok oil (i use groundnut); vinaigrette
THEN DO THI[…]

Day 58: Theme From Tokyo
AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY LOUSY TUNES
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I woke up with the poor dismembered bodies of the young karaoke singers around me. It was like a scene from a Japanese horror movie – such as Ring (nowhere near as frightening as the Abba horror Ring Ring which still keeps me awake at night). I[…]

Why The Man Is In The Moon
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I caught the first half of Man In The Moon last night, but we were too tired to stay up. So in answer to the “what did Andy Kaufmann die of” question, I websearched.
I did not imagine I would actually find his DEATH CERTIFICATE ON THE WEB[…]

The Decade Of The Smugs
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Mr Busy, the slightly gossipy insiders view of the movie industry page of Sight And Sound wanders into a minefield this moth. In trying to define a cultural mindset, a move away from direct arthouse snobbery into what he describes as “Smug&#822[…]

Quiz Night Hustler
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The new quiz season at the Three Compasses started last night. This is a twelve week season, unlike the six week one which we walked just before Christmas. And out team is understrength, having lost members to the 21st century malaise that is traveli[…]

New York Was In The Arctic Circle In The 1930’s
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Grand conspiracy theory I know, but finally in the recent Peter Jackson production of King Kong I HAVE PROOF. See below:
Proof 1: There is snow everywhere. In particular Central Park is so cold that an iced over lake is strong enough to support the w[…]

Worrying News For Web Designers
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People judge websites quality in about a twentieth of a second. Which IS FASTER THAN WE ACTUALLY THINK. This is the reality of the interwebworld, first discovered almost five years ago when it was discovered that people could tell if a website was us[…]

Memories Of A Geisha Girl
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I went to see the Memories of Geisha Girl Film yesterday and was surprised at the things I learned.
a) Geisha Girlz were all Chinese.
b) They can juggle fans, which to Japanese men are irresistible.
c) They play very out of tune ukeleles.
d) Everyon[…]

Well I Never
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Marvel’s 1985 photo-comic – ‘incredibly innovative’, costs 1xmillion dollars to make, etc. etc. – looks like screenshots from knock-off survival horror game. Oh dear.[…]

Best non-sequitur ever
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In this interview, football agent Jerome Anderson responds to a question about there the bad impression of agents comes from.
He can only speak for himself, he says. ‘I had a place at university to study law’.
Well, thanks for clearing t[…]

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