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SPLINK
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Worth watching to see how we were scared off of ever going near roads, not to mention ever crossing them. Jon Pertwee and his incomprehensible mnemonic SPLINK!
What is nice is the talk back at the bottom of the article where someone suggests the cree[…]

Robbing Hitchcock*
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I was in a ‘Discount Media Store’ recently. The kind of place where books are heaped everywhere and yet, incredibly, they’re all rubbish. And the shop smells like a big wet dog. Outdated travel guides, calendars, remaindered fiction[…]

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cashpoints are just computers like everything else: THE SHOCKING PROOF
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*enters tomb-like dust-covered control room, blows cobwebs off panels etc*
ok on sat even i put my card into a cashpoint to get money out
i. as the card went in the screen changed from usual user-friendly promo nonsense (it wz the HALIFAX so it fea[…]

What’s Up, Nigel?
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I generally like Nigel Slater. I think he is a good demystifier of cooking and understands the joy of quick comfort food. However, flicking through Real Food about a year ago, the veggie section, I came across and admission that he had never really c[…]

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