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Almost two years ago
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Almost two years ago, publog supremo mr barang and I managed to have a conversation that came, somehow, to the conclusion that MARMITE CHICKEN would be a marvellous thing. In our world this was: 1. Take a whole chicken 2. Slather it in marmite 3. R[…]

Losing a match,
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Losing a match, despite scoring what seemed to be a perfectly good equaliser, is always unfortunate. However Mr Flack (scroll down, penultimate line), there’s no need to resort to stereotyping, although with babycham being PERRY after all, it&[…]

Now, I know I was blathering on about this in the pub last night,
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Now, I know I was blathering on about this in the pub last night, but it really does need blogging. The second best thing about “The Ultimate Popstar” on Channel 4 last Sunday was Shakin’ Stevens being in the top 15 best selling si[…]

Right
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Right, before that crappy bit about adverts on page 3 of the Snide in saturday’s Grauniad devotes an whole hil-aaaar-ious page to this, YES we have spotted that Royal Carribean Cruises are using “There She Goes” by the Las on their[…]

A truly heart-warming story
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A truly heart-warming story from grauniad education, combining my two best things LIFELONG LEARNING and BEER here at the beer academy. No dates for when their next courses are unfortunately, but I think this is something the publog should be relativ[…]

I am, in fact, convinced
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I am, in fact, convinced that the denizens of 119 Farringdon Road are having me trailed and turning all of my popular culture discussions with friends into articles. For a while the snide has been ripping stuff off ILX, but not 48 hours after I was […]

Further to sarah’s CAMRA piss-taking
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Further to sarah’s CAMRA piss-taking, 10 reasons to drink cask ale, including the frankly ludicrous number 8, which confuses things containing fat with things that are “fattening”. If atkins has taught us anything (which it possibl[…]

Ignore the waffling on about agas
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Ignore the waffling on about agas and scroll down to the recipe for sausage and black pudding with baked parsnips which i made for our teas last night.
Nigel, i think i love you (although i think next time i do it, i’ll brown the sausages first[…]

No doubt like every other right-thinking publogger, I find
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No doubt like every other right-thinking publogger, I find this a blatant bit of bandwagon jumping…
What about the other 51 weeks of the year, eh? Part-timers, the lot of ’em…[…]

Well done, Great British Public!
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Well done, Great British Public!
The Nation’s Favourite Xmas Food as revealed last night on BBC2 was possibly the least surprising top 11 (and it was only 11 to squeeze nut roast in, political correctness gone mad etc…) ever. When it com[…]

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  1. The Darkness' Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End) fits chronologically into the gap, but, obviously?, spiritually, is Glam Christmas...

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