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A very dear and cantankerous friend asked for this song to be posted and I know I’ll never hear the end of it if I don’t do so…
‘Gold Dust Woman’ by Stevie Nicks (Fleetwood Mac). Now a lot of people believe this song is about cocaine (Nicks herself can’t fully remember what it was about)
Rock on […]

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I did wonder whether to blog about this. Would it be getting all a bit too Oprah Winfrey-ish? But then I remembered how worried you’ve all been about my vertigo spells which I have been having for 8 weeks now. Really the cards, the baskets of fruit, the poems of undying love from not one […]

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I was just beginning to warm to The Smiths but I would have difficulty enjoying their music now
“England is a memory now,” he says, in an interview with the NME published yesterday. “The gates are flooded and anybody can have access to England and join in… You can’t say, ‘Everybody come into my house, sit […]

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Got my copies yesterday. Firstly let me just say for shame ArtsWA for cutting Westerly’s funding, under a Labour state government and all, what is the world coming to?
This issue came with a booklet of poetry Cleanskin (bad luck you people who thought this post was about wine) by the horribly talented and prolific writer […]

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Me: I was thinking about the migratory patterns of eels
I have posted this because I think it’s a good example of why you shouldn’t ask people what they are thinking

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Is the most popular whale name in Greenpeace’s Name the Whale poll, proving that funny always wins
I bet the people who produced Free Willy wished they’d thought of that name, they must be kicking themselves now

Link from Boing Boing, via Ivan

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The world from the point of view of a 4 year old…

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Is popping out to say cook-coo cook-coo, cook-coo
To say goodbye cook-coo…
To you…
So long farewell, auf weidersehen good-bye
Johnny
 
I hate to go and leave this pretty sight
 
Picture ‘leder of the gummint’ courtesy of Duk

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[before kindy]
Squib: I’ll plait your hair today
LittleSquib: pouting Last time [when you did that] *Jessica said I had a tail on my head
Squib: Well Jessica was probably jealous because she wanted a tail too
[during another Political Party ad on TV… ]
LittleSquib: Not again! I’m sick of this one. Are you sick of it?
BigSquib: yep
LittleSquib: Me too
[in […]

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Have we hastened the demise of the universe by looking at it? That’s the startling question posed by a pair of physicists, who suggest that we may have accidentally nudged the universe closer to its death by observing dark energy, which is thought to be speeding up cosmic expansion. (Marcus Chown, NS) 
WHAT?!! I’m not a […]

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