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Products Which Should Exist Due To a Clever Punning Name, But Don’t: 2: Toilet Duck A La Orange
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Okay, they come pretty close on this one. Of the three flavoured* offerings from the good people at SC Johnson (A Family Company), one is citrus. The others – for the record – are the remarkably non-descript “FRESH” and the Sa[…]

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Tanya’s Army Of Awfulness: XTC – SERGEANT ROCK
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Actually the XTC single is called Sgt.Rock, where Sgt is the abbreviation for Sergeant. Which is not surprising for XTC, a band so poor at spelling that they could not spell their own name. Even the home counties numb-nutts that were EMF knew that Ec[…]

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NEXT – Puhlease!
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Next is a stupid movie, almost as if it were de rigeur for a book based on a Philkdick short story. And yet the ideas in Philkdick’s stories often demand schlocky film versions. What other way does Hollywood have to illustrate various ideas about t[…]

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AROOGAH! Asparagus!!
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Hurrah! For, lo, it is asparagus season again, which coincided nicely with our weekend visit to Arbutus in Soho (srsly, go there, you can have two amazing courses and good wine for like £30 a head which is barely more than a curry in town these days[…]

Tanya’s Army Of Awfulness: Carcass – CORPORAL JIGSORE QUANDARY
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There are only two songs I could find that mentioned Corporals, and since my views on Pink Floyd seem adequately covered*, I would rather look at Carcass. Initially though I thought there would be little to say about the Napalm Death spin-off band wh[…]

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But Everyone Knows The Thing Is Circumsized
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When old and new media colide. I think that someone in charge of the Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer (clearly problems occur when you call it Fantastic 4 2) Myspace page may need to rethink the tagline on this image.

Hmm, Animated Fantasti[…]

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Tanya’s Army Of Awfulness: PRIVATE DANCER
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“God help us if there is a war”, my father used to say looking at Top Of The Pops on television. I could no hear him of course, as I had my fingers in my ears to protect them from the Saville peddled filth, but I could lip read and did no[…]

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Focus Group 11 – JOJO
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JOJO – “Too Little Too Late” – Score: 4.56 (10th) – Controversy: 2.40 (18th)
(Females: 12th. Males: 8th. Under 30s: 7th. Over 30s: 11th.)
Most like: Avril Lavigne. Most unlike: Maximo Park (more…)[…]

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The Universal Declaration Of Robot Rights
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Scientists are being naive in saying that the government report on granting rights to robots is a waste of time. But then scientists are always the last people to apologise when their wacky projects accidentally end up grafting intelligent robotic ar[…]

Poptimism – Lesson Thirty Six
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Ao Limite Eu Vou – NonStop (Misbehavin’ Rap Mix)
Me And My Imagination – Sophie Ellis-Bextor (Tony Lamezma Remix)
Super Star – S.H.E
Love Today – Mika (Rob Mello Remix)
Please – Robert Smith & Paul Hartnoll
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