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A half-formed thought about POP VIDEOS
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Some discussion on LiveJournal about the best pop videos and Johnny Cash’s “Hurt” stuck out as ever like a sore thumb. I don’t particularly like the video or the song, though I’ve no probs w/Mr Cash in general, but how c[…]

guess which nation!
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the reporter just described it as a “country layered in history” — AS OPPOSED TO WHERE?[…]

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partial blaine damage
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the world record for full-body immersion (esp.HEAD if applicable) in a vat of full fat soft cheese = six hours — GO DAVE!

URGENT UPDATE: joke-spoilin scientifickal AXIOMS of PBS restated to mollify the too-full-of-foopball hedz
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Not Even APPROACHING Science
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What is a one hit wonder? It can be an artist that never had another chart hit, an artist who never reached top 10 again, or an artist who just is, in the nation’s perception, a one hit wonder. In Channel 4’s ’50 Greatest One Hit Wo[…]

-gated noise
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ever since two junior footslog reporters toppled a US president 30 years ago, the american mainstream media has liked to get ahead of the game by giving a beltway scandal a “-gate” suffix, in honour of the watergate, the vast, swanky wash[…]

We are all goblins now!
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Jason Mills, Manchester
I recently purchased ye famous D100 and noticed at once (Spot Hidden 75%) that the faces we not equally spaced. To be specific, they are farthest apart nearer the ‘poles’ of the die. This did not strike me as a goo[…]

“when the stalking horse throws his hat into the ring”
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martha kearney ur teh cuet but USE OTHER WORDS PLZ[…]

Go Run Your Arthouse Screen
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US cinema chain dedicates screens to arthouse and documentaries. I have never understood why multiplexes didn’t do this in the first place. Take Holloway Odeon – it has eight screens of which two have less than sixty seats. Often filled w[…]

Imagine How Much A Quaver Would Have Cost Her
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Woman Fined £75 For Throwing A Cheesy Wotsit Out Of A Car.
I find Wotsits offensive too. I bet it took them ages to remove the Wotsit dust off of the verge.[…]

home not alone
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ok so beyond-the-veil action continues apace…
i. the most recent agency carer — sensible by day, “sensitive” by night, w.tall tales akimbo — detected a “presence” (ie the kid’s room door, which doesn&#[…]

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