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If you’re into chocolate and are in the USA, read this – particularly the linked article – because it’s eye-opening. $2,080 per pound, for remoulded couverture? Eek!

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If he can ride a bike, he can present TV. More Top Gear soon. Yay! I am waiting until the New Year. BBC News Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond has said it was “fantastic” to ride a motorbike for the first time since his near-fatal jet-car crash in September. He told Motorcycle News he had

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I feel bad. Alas.

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I grew up with a phone exactly like this. It was a pain to use. If you were phoning into local radio quiz competitions, you had to use a pen to dial since the dialer holes were too small and wore your finger out. It got chucked when my parents exchange went DTMF. Apparently it

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…whilst going on vacation to Canada with the family:- SCHOOL IN CHELTENHAM I went to school in Cheltenham At a fashionable Ladies’ College Where I learnt what’s what And acquired a lot of Exceedingly practical knowledge Our reading; writing, ‘rithmetic Was positively mediocre But we got pretty slick At the three card trick And we

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I’ve just been out on the Trice – a cool, fresh, slightly overcast sky, riding over to see Simon & Helen to retreive a piece of coal so Dave can do the first-footer thing at a New Year’s party coming up. According to my speedo I did 6.66 miles in 44 minutes, with a top

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(Via) Culture-bound syndrome of the day: “Paris Syndrome”. This is a condition affecting Japanese tourists who travel to Paris, romantic scenes from Amélie in their minds, only to discover that the city is considerably dirtier and-shock, horror-full of very rude people. This shock can cause a psychiatric breakdown: An encounter with a rude taxi driver,

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Welcome to the longest night. Solstice is at 0608h GMT tomorrow. Another year over. The days start getting longer from now on. Summer is on the way. And we are alive.

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news.com.com.com A systems administrator who apparently feared imminent layoffs was arrested Tuesday in connection with installing “destructive computer code” on servers at his company, a major manager of prescription benefit plans. FBI agents arrested Yung-Hsun “Andy” Lin, 50, at his Montville, N.J., home on Tuesday morning, one day after a grand jury returned a two-count

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From Charing Cross Rd

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