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11 Reasons To Love Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes
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1: Its open til 1am Monday – Wednesday, 2am the rest of the week.
2: It does White Russians for £3.50. Most other cocktails are £4.00.
3: It has a free sequential jukebox.
4: They are adding two karaoke boxes to the venue as we speak.
5: The […]

More Manager Stuff
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Coming out of the previous argument on the efficacy of football managers, comes a nice little podcast from the University of Warwick on changes made in managerial practice. That is all dinky and possibly not as significant as Dr Sue Bridgewater think[…]

Where’s The Story (About Morning Glory)
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For some time I had heard rumour of Channel Four dipping their toes back into the Breakfast TV market. I had even been telling people about it happening without realising IT HAD ALREADY STARTED. And my general prediction about it was correct. Morning[…]

Watching the inevitable
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In Lower City a prostitute ends up hanging out with these two dudes (they are dudes). They both take it in turns to have sex with her in a casual way. And this goes on until…
The odd thing about Lower City is the pounding sense of inevitability[…]

Fat Man Update
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…The story so far. Once upon a time there were some pubs in London which did not do the same beers as everywhere else. People scoffed, but we tried out the Happy Shopper lagers on offer and became quite enamored of the cooking lager: Ayingerbra[…]

Scientist Stereotyped Boo-Hoo
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A recent survey showed that when children are asked to draw a scientist they consistently draw a figure “with wild hair, lab coat, staring eyes, coke-bottle glasses, a withered hand; in some cases they’ve even written the word “MAD&[…]

Without A (much of a) Trace
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Before the hordes arrive talking about Life On Mars (aka Goodnight Sweeneyheart) I caught the first episode of the new series of Without A Trace last night. What a misnomer that title is: every week there is a trace, THAT IS THE POINT, THAT IS HOW TH[…]

Footballer Kills Crisp Brand (pot Noodle Saved)
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There are lots of angles with which you can look at the sad news that Golden Wonder have gone into administration. You can hark back to nostalgia, when a bag of Golden Wonder were in every child’s lunchbox. You can suggest that the increase in […]

Manchester United, Third Round FA Cup, Conference Side?
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Whodathunk they would draw?
I mean, a team the quality of Manchester United versus a team four divisions below them?
What price on a draw for Man U vs Combined Cambridge next year?[…]

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Budweiser E
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Just noticed that the nice people at Budweiser have sent my bar a few free cases of Budweiser E: the new Energy Beer from Bud. I am assuming that the key point of said beer is that not all of the sugar turns to alcohol and therefore leaves you super-[…]

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