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THE JULIA LENNON THEORY
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THE JULIA LENNON THEORY
This is to assist people on TMFD where this has recently been brought up. Here are quotes from the nine occasions Sinkah has refered to this, with a brief commentary.
From :Why Can’t England produce competent drummers
th[…]

Last nights horror TV battle.
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Last nights horror TV battle. Five: Aliens. Chest bursting, acid blooded, shiny penile biolologically unlikely* horrors did battle with:
Channel 4: 101 Embarrassing Sexual Accidents. Like 101 Things Removed From The Human Body this was another jokey […]

WELCOME TO VREACKJ-t’DROGGA
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WELCOME TO VREACKJ-t’DROGGA
A very brief trip to Belgium at the weekend saw members of the Publog drinking. Quelle-surprise as they say in certain parts of said country. However there does need to be some form of selection process to what you d[…]

RETURN OF THE BEAGLE
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RETURN OF THE BEAGLE
What is noice about this story is that the sturdily British Beagle Mars vehicle has to now admit that when it comes to space there is no room for parochialism. This time using some sort of skycrane they hope to drop the thing dow[…]

FT Top 100 Films 55: POLICE ACADEMY
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FT Top 100 Films
55: POLICE ACADEMY
(Deep breath, here goes, even I’m having trouble here. I mean it is no Citizens On Patrol.) Is the message at the heart of Police Academy
a) That the police will become ineffective and a laughing stock if the[…]

If quality could be judged on the time spent sitting in the pub
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If quality could be judged on the time spent sitting in the pub discussing it afterwards (and perhaps in a Geezeasthetics world it should be) then the standing of dodgy science fiction movies would obviously soar. I went to see The Butterfly Effect a[…]

FT Top 100 Films 56: THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL
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FT Top 100 Films
56: THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL
So if The Dark Crystal is The Muppet Movie without the laffs, what is this? The Muppet Movie with Michael Caine as Scrooge? Pretty much. It keeps in the laffs, but it is also a pretty straight adaptati[…]

Poker bids to become Olympic sport
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Poker bids to become Olympic sport. Despite not actually being a sport. The article mentions that they want to get recognition like chess or bridge, neither of which are Olympic sports. Because they are not sports.
I don’t want to drift into s[…]

PUB QUIZ QUESTION OF THE WEEK:
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PUB QUIZ QUESTION OF THE WEEK:

Qustion from the Hope and Anchor, Tottenham Lane. A good 30 question quiz, where the questions are quite hard (winning score was 21, we got 19) and the cash prize was guaranteed as over £40 (it looked more like £60 l[…]

Is it a criticism to say that Spider-Man 2 had the same plot as Superman 2?
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Is it a criticism to say that Spider-Man 2 had the same plot as Superman 2? Probably not, one way or another the film was going to be based on something, and rather another relatively successful film than some untried comics. Whilst not a direct reha[…]

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