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Quatermass Armageddon – John Mills v Bruce Willis
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— 29 Jan 2007 Alan Comment

The final Quatermass (on TV) story ends with, hem hem, someone having to stay behind to set off a nucular bomb. This will divert the menace lurking out there in space threatening to destroy all life, having taken 1000s of lives already. In Armageddon[…]

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Non-Thrillers For Kids: The Ring-O-Bells Mystery
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— 29 Jan 2007 Tom 1 comment

Most of Enid Blyton’s books are either fantasies or thrillers, of a sort: a gang of kids, formalised or not, in a run-in with adult crooks. I don’t know if she came up with the formula herself, but commercially speaking she is its definit[…]

Oooh, me Chalmers are giving me gip
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— 29 Jan 2007 katstevens 8 comments

My further extensive research on celebrity Cockney Rhyming Slang reveals that Judith is not alone: Clement Freud is a slightly more straightforward curse when your piles are playing up. (more…)[…]

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