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Oi! Eavis!!
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xrrf tell us that 395,000 people have now registered for Glastonbury, ie, more people registered IN THE LAST WEEK, than in the four weeks it was open in the first place. Clearly the only PROPER FAIR WAY to sort this out is not let anyone who register[…]

Their Comments To Take Over The World
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Now we know how mental the BBC Talking Points get. So one would imagine the humorous and pithy answers a woman moving back to the UK from Australia after thirty years would get to the question “Has anything changed?” Oh the fun, the gags […]

Tasty Sammich Alert!
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Marks And Spencers new Steak and Blacksticks Blue sandwich – very rich, very flavoursome (and a lovely combination of tangy cheese, sweet onion relish and steak which manages to hold its own against both). Also very expensive – though it[…]

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Wiz you were here*
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Last night I went to the Islington Academy and I saw:
Acoustical Big Fat Andy Cairns from Therapy?
Neds Atomical Dustbins
Some Bloke From The Doughboys
Reuben
The Senseless Things
Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine
And
Mega City Four (the remaining m[…]

Domestic Violence
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Link with clip of Martha Rosler’s Semiotics of the Kitchen (requires Quicktime) as mentioned on yesterday’s FTatLoP. Sadly, my own video of the merciless blunt object destruction of a load of digestives would not upload to YouTube last ni[…]

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the (first) great caruso
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as per lollardry yesterday, mp3 of caruso singing “vesti la giubba” HERE: this is conventionally regarded as the first million-selling record (though he recorded it more than once in the years for difft record companies 1902-03, and i ima[…]

Is this the Funniest Telly Moment Ever? Harry Hill and those penguins
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I’m still laughing at it months later. (From 3m 54s)[…]

Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop – Week 9
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HIT from Tin Pan Alley. Host Steve, guests Mark, Sarah and Rob (contains a lot of finbarr saunders sniggering). Eurovision, The wrong mag fields track, violent cookery and bashing biscuits, Tanya and The Fall, Chess and Murder, the man who wouldn’t die, 2002-A Hit Song – Freedesign, Dr Pub and round remembering, Caruso and the hot sausage, The Hit Song – DJ Format.

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Guess My Theory (2000AD 30th birthday edition)
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(Prompted by a great post about designer Barney Bubbles over at Feuilleton.)[…]

4chan for beginners
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Don’t ever visit the 4chan site, it’s incomprehensible and full of filth (what better advert). But if you are feeling old from the incomprehensible tide of internets memes (which you can nearly always trace back to 4chan), you could get y[…]

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