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Archive for July, 2007
29th July 2007 7:35pm

At a quick glance, Morrisons own brand margarine looks more like “Better by fart” to me.

Better by fart

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28th July 2007 5:11pm

Really spoil it for everyone by wearing this t-shirt out on the town this Saturday…

Harry Potter Spoiler shirt

Get it from The Harry Potter Public Enlightenment Project

File under: Entertainment, Movies
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27th July 2007 10:37am

Merry Miller (ABC News, “What’s the Buzz”) interviews Holly Hunter about her TV show “Saving Grace”.

The epitome of professional TV journalism. Try and sit though all 4 uncomfortable minutes of it, if you can.

(Holy Moly)

File under: Entertainment, Humour, TV
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27th July 2007 10:24am

Yesterday there was a comment about the Harry Potter spoiler. The comment seemed a bit over the top for the subject matter:

Who decides which books get press (Harry Potter) and which get censored? After all, censorship is becoming America’s favorite past-time. The US gov’t (and their corporate friends), already detain protesters, ban books like “America Deceived” from Amazon and Wikipedia, shut down Imus and fire 21-year tenured, BYU physics professor Steven Jones because he proved explosives, thermite in particular, took down the WTC buildings. Free Speech forever (especially for books).
Last link (before Google Books caves to pressure and drops the title):
America Deceived (Book)

The book “America Deceived” does not appear on Amazon, but if you Google the comment, there’s loads of them very similar to the one above. On another site, someone else speculates:

Regarding “America Deceived” It was NEVER available via Amazon or B&N. It was published via “Fast Track” at iUniverse.com (a subsidiary of B&N, btw) IT WAS NEVER BANNED FROM ANYWHERE

The author choose not to have it released via B&N or Amazon per iUniverse. Political motivation or just a cheapskate? You decide.

If you would like, you can call them yourself and ask. The phone number for iUniverse is 1-800-AUTHORS. No, really, call them and ask if it was ever distributed by Amazon or B&N and they will tell you it wasn’t as it was a “fast Track” publication.

It is the speculation of this commenter that the author of the previous comment is actually the author of the book looking for some easy publicity via blogs. A Google search on “America Deceived” will bring up hundreds of very similarly comments, but all have the link to iUniverse in them.

Coincidence?

It’s definitely not the usual comment spam, as the commenter doesn’t provide a URL, so it’s probably publicity.

Cheeky monkey.

File under: Politics
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26th July 2007 1:38pm

Prank call sees little Irish girl call up a demolition firm to arrange the destruction of her school…

(needs sound)


Little Becky Prank Call - Watch more free videos

(Gem)

File under: Humour
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23rd July 2007 8:43pm

Harry Potter E’s have turned up in New York. I haven’t read the books or seen the films, so I can’t think of any puns.

harry potter ecstasy

Link

File under: Entertainment, Humour, Movies
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22nd July 2007 6:16pm

While enjoying this long, hot, sunny summer - I overheard my neighbour discussing with his wife the best way to kill slugs. Upon hearing his wife ask, “But why does salt kill slugs?” - I instantly sprang into action.

“Dear neighbour”, I replied, “the answer is quite obvious - it is due to a simple biological phenomenon – osmosis! The process of ‘osmosis’ is the passage of water from a region of high water concentration through a semi-permeable membrane to a region of low water concentration. Upon putting salt onto the slug, the process of osmosis is triggered, resulting in the rapid depreciation of the slug’s life expectancy - to a couple of seconds.

The reason is that slugs (and snails for that matter) have a higher percentage of their bodyweight made up of water than other animals. Also, their skin is much more permeable than other animals. Upon the application of salt to the unfortunate (or deserving) slug (who belong to the animal classification ‘Phylum Mollusca’, commonly called molluscs; class ‘Gastropoda’) this decreases the water concentration outside the slug/snail.

As osmosis is the aforementioned process of the movement of water from an area of high water concentration through a semi-permeable membrane to an area of lower water concentration - the water inside the slug moves outside the slug, in order to reach an equilibrium concentration on both sides of the skin. Why is osmosis triggered? It is because salt is a desiccant, it removes water from things.

Unfortunately, this means that the slug is now much drier then it can tolerate. It literally dies of dehydration. The thick goo you see on the slug after salt is put on the body is actually the fluid or blood of a slug that rushes to the skin’s surface to dilute the salt.”

My neighbour’s wife thanked me and they both hurried indoors. I haven’t seen them since……

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21st July 2007 9:53pm

Mark Kermode (BBC Radio 5 Live) rants on for 10 solid minutes about the alledged bilge that is Pirates of the Carribbean 3.

Watch as radio show host Simon Mayo gradually looses the will to live…

(As recommended by Struddo)

File under: Entertainment, Humour, Movies
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20th July 2007 4:28pm

Similar to the moped/roundabout video that YouTube eventually removed after it made it into the news because of the fear of copycats, three kids from somewhere in the UK jump off their garage roof onto a trampoline.

Catch it quick before it’s taken down… Better with sound…

File under: Humour
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20th July 2007 1:46pm

Bags of coke for sale in Clifton for a “fuel fire”? Yeah, right.

coke

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