Dropsafe

So I was in Slough yesterday, getting the motorbike’s 4000mi service, when these two beautiful Indian women walked into the shop, wearing full makeup, salwar kameez dresses and flowing scarves, strappy sandals, lots of gold jewelery and peals of bangles. One then picked-up a broom, the other a mop, they systematically cleaned the floor of…

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I have been getting a very large number of hits for the string bad taste in mouth (and variations of that) ever since i posted an article with that title to the blog. Almost bizzarely this one does not seem to be an accidental pr0n conflict – compare and contrast to the thousands of hits…

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[www.nasa.gov]

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I last week obtained a couple of giant puffball mushrooms, one for a friend and the other for cooking. The puffball has a rich, mushroomy smell, especially for the first couple of hours after picking; my example was about 9 inches in diameter, near-spherical, pinching down to a neck that socketed into the ground. Rather…

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so i get this bizzare e-mail, a fragment of which reads: There’s been discussion since last November 2003, that the Bush regime would try to declare martial law in the USA to keep the November 2004 elections from occurring because the globalists, who run the multi-national corporations supporting Bush’s world domination agenda, are worried Bush…

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i really wonder whether i need bother seeing the movie, now. [playlist.yahoo.com]

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the opening bars of neil hannon / the divine comedy’s the happy goth are the same as those of all about eve’s december, off the scarlet &… album. coincidence? i think not.

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Hmmmmm… Your Headline Reader Has Been Banned Your RSS reader is abusing the Slashdot server. You are requesting pages more often than our terms of service allow. Please see the FAQ link for more information, and if you email us, include your IPID MD5: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. …except that I am not, I don’t think; I suspect…

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[www.tombihn.com] … The inside label carries instructions on washing and caring for the bags. Because the bags are sold in Canada, the instructions are also printed in French. The French version, however, contains an additional phrase: “NOUS SOMMES DESOLES QUE NOTRE PRESIDENT SOIT UN IDIOT. NOUS N’AVONS PAS VOTE POUR LUI.” Translated to English, the…

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ok, so, accoring to dave walker i am not the only person who has a personal gripe about the marketing cliche, 24x7x365 dave prefers plain 24×7 (ditto) – or 24×365 (which is a little implausible to my tastes) i’d prefer 24x7x52 which is at least a calendar year (modulo leap years, which would make it…

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