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The Bible Of Badness: GENESIS
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— 14 Nov 2006 Tanya Headon 25 comments

In The Beginning There Was Nothingness. IF ONLY.
In The Beginning There Was The Word. NOT THE BIRD FROM L7 PULLING DOWN HER KECKS AGAIN.
But neither of these are strictly true. Because the first book of the Bible Of Badness is Genesis. And if you wer[…]

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How clean is your band?
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— 11 Oct 2006 katstevens 66 comments

The discerning televisual fan will be aware of the vacuum currently residing in the schedules between the 7.30pm end of Hollyoaks First Look and the 9pm commencement of Ghost Whisperer. There are only so many times one can flick between Puff Daddy ji[…]

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Call For Submissions: THE LONG EGG
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— 18 Aug 2006 Pete Baran 29 comments

The man who invented the Gala Pie is a hero of mine. Not just because he took one of natures nicest foodstuff (namely the pork pie) and made it even better. He made it better by the addition of the hard boiled egg. But not just any old hard boiled eg[…]

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The Pornography Of Nostalgia
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— 15 Aug 2006 Pete Baran 2 comments

The Notorious Bettie Page is a film about the good old days of porn. You know, when it wasn’t exploitative, and all the girls portrayed within were not only fun loving conspirators in an art project, but believed in Jeebus too. Most film about […]

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I WAS A GOBLIN: Encyclopaedia Goblinica
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— 25 Jul 2006 Tom 18 comments

Or: Games I Have Known. For the sake of my patience and yours, I have mostly restricted this to games I either owned or played – ones where I read a friends’ rulebooks and only dimly remember have been ignored, with a couple of notable e[…]

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The Music And Football Player Exchange, Notting Hill
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— 23 Aug 2005 Pete Baran 4 comments

One of the happy upshots of the Bosman Ruling which we have been living with for almost ten years, is the effect it has on players prices near the end of their contract. Take Clinton Morrison (Birmingham wish someone would) the Republic of Ireland st[…]

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Films about films (no-one has seen)
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— 20 Jun 2005 Pete Baran Comment

Last week saw the release of not one, but two films about previous films. And I don’t mean Batman Begins (which should be retitled Batman Starts for Essex). Inside Deep Throat, a documentary about the making of and the effect of notorious porn […]

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Which of the following is not a pie?
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— 28 Nov 2004 mark sinker 7 comments

i. shepherd’s/cottage pieii. cheese flan/pizzaiii. scotch eggiv. boiled egg

actually i am not going to bother you w.all the ins and outs of the GREBT PIE DEBATE, as i wz not in on its inception, and besides the militia are now formed and a s[…]

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Everything They Say About Soul Is Wrong
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— 13 Nov 2004 Martin Skidmore 4 comments

Emotion vs Technique in Soul Music and its Criticism
Does soul music have soul, and does it matter?
Hear or read most people praising soul music, and they’ll be hyping certain qualities, while some others won’t get a mention. ‘Soul&[…]

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The Ultimate Future Shock!!!!!!
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— 31 Oct 2004 Al_Ewing 15 comments

 
? Wait, what?   MORE!! ?
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