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“OK I work in investment banking but I used to read THE FACE in the 80s…
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… so I realise that having to deal w.yr recently deceased mother’s stocks and bonds seems a bit alien to you — therefore to make you feel more at home, here is a corporate newsletter dollied up as a FUNKY LIFESTYLE MAG!! The main to[…]

I blame Franz Ferdinand
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I have no great distaste for the people of Glasgow, individually. And possibly even collectively, when they take time off from posing like boho-art-school-scenester-clones or squandering money on designer costumes to squash their oh-so-ample irn-bru […]

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all the fun of being in a packed underground carriage PLUS TRAFFIC JAMS ALSO
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i. it is of course irritatin when ppl wax moistly sentimental abt the just-vanished ROUTEMASTER…

ii. … but this pales into nothing when compared w.the MIND-FRYIN of HELL of goin home at rush hour on a bendy bus for the first time[…]

In September And October 2005 Blog 7 was a blog about the strange
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In November it will be about minor irritations.
Such as Blogger not uploading your site, or eating your posts or – GAAAAHHHH!!!![…]

Before you go, A Little More Knights Templar Strangeness
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The mists that surround stories heard in childhood can lend them a mystic significance, and this is never more true than for those magical tales of socio-economics. Imagine the youngster, eyes open with wonder, hearing yarns of reckless, inflation-ha[…]

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THE FT TOP 23 STRANGE PHENOMENA No 1. The Ghost In The Lord John Russell
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Last week, in the usual way of journals which are vaguely connected with Freaky Trigger, Time Out did a whole section on Haunted London. In itself this is as spooky as the Guardian Guide doing an article on a very similar topic to a Freaky Trigger on[…]

THE FT TOP 23 STRANGE PHENOMENA No 2. The Indian Rope Trick
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The Indian Rope Trick has become one of the most famous magical effects of all time, a doubly impressive feat since it was never actually performed. The recent book, The Rise Of The Indian Rope Trick, details the creation of the hoax by the journalis[…]

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THE FT TOP 23 STRANGE PHENOMENA No. 3 The Bermuda Triangle
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She says, “Hawaii’s too expensive.”
I say, “Barbados isn’t bad.”
She says, “I’d love to see Bermuda”
And I said, “Woman, are you mad!”
Barry Manilow’s Bermuda Triangle got to […]

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THE FT TOP 23 STRANGE PHENOMENA No. 4 Male Phantom Pregnancies
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I know nothing about Male Phantom Pregnancies (or Mpreg as I believe the interweb likes to call ’em). Therefore this will be a somewhat disjointed thinkpiece based on what I have discovered doing a bit of research. First I asked an wimmin. This[…]

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THE FT TOP 23 STRANGE PHENOMENA No. 5 The Mystery of Easter Island
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i. mystery no.1 where did its denizens heard about EASTER eh?

ii. mystery no.2 why does nobody ever discuss HALLOWEEN ISLAND eh? EH??

iii. how suspicious is it that ONE SINGLE ISLAND has become the default object-of-projection for all knock-the-[…]

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