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teaching our grandmothers to suck…
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“teaching our grandmothers to suck… EGGSES”
“I headed off to a village in central Flores where we heard the most amazing tales of little hairy people whom they called ebu gogo: ebu meaning ‘grandmother’ and gogo &[…]

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ACTUAL REAL LIVE HOBBITS DISCOVERED IN INDONESIA!!!
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ACTUAL REAL LIVE HOBBITS DISCOVERED IN INDONESIA!!!:
ok they are not live, they lived there “at the same time our own ancestors were colonising the world”, as the BBC rather weirdly puts it (ahem if the world is our colony where are we s[…]

MOBY
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MOBY he make KISSYFACE
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GOOGLING CAN SAVE YR LIFE
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GOOGLING CAN SAVE YR LIFE:
this reverses the usual fear i guess but i still suspect mileage may vary (badman: “we have googled and found a thing called ilXoR: what exactly did you mean when you said… ” etc)[…]

INSECTS WHICH COME TO BITS
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INSECTS WHICH COME TO BITS
aged c.3-16 i did not have that much in common with moors murderer ian brady that i can think of, except this: a morbid terror of daddy-long-legses – and i got over mine, b4 you all rush off to the police… neve[…]

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FT TOP 100 FILMS 15: QUEEN OF THE DAMNED
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Centred as it is on Stuart Townshend’s performance – a badness of judgment and execution that enters Bowie-esque ahem “cracked actor” territory!* – I forget that my rabid partisan support for and devotion to this film is[…]

the negative pragmatics of soxmania
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the negative pragmatics of soxmania: or CURSES!! FOILED AGAIN!!
3lisha S3ssions writes: “It’s only in recent years that the word “curse” came to be associated with the Red Sox’s particular brand of hope-dashing bad luck[…]

magritte endorses kerry
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magritte endorses kerry:
“‘Sacre bleu, vive le France,’ say some other candidates. ‘Ceci n’est pas une pipe.‘”
(eg more political discussion from fafnir an giblets) (i kinda know this is not genuine frontli[…]

I AM LEGION
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“I AM LEGION“: or Making the Contradiction the Hook
Aging leftists often wring their hands and shake their heads: “What happened to rock? In my day it was the soundtrack to the revolt against war…” And then they up and […]

the greatest comeback in sports history
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the greatest comeback in sports history??
clearly it is odd for me to be bloggin abt the SoXorZes but i am v.interested of curses – there are not enuff in brit sports i think… anyway, outlanders, is this claim true beyond the borders of […]

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