Tag: humor
member name: Ian Thorpe
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March 05, 2008 03:13 PM EST --
Just came from Sheryl O's page where a post about blasphemy laws in the UK has moved to an Intelligent Design versus evolution debate.
These always remind me of the fundie who visited my UK blog . . . more
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July 27, 2008 10:39 AM EDT --
I was not going to do anything here today, I just checked in to look at my messages. In the inbox was a question from Dame Ruth, a very good question that deserved an equally good answer. So, opening . . . more
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July 14, 2006 01:18 PM EDT --
All of these are legitimate companies dealing in regular products and services, but they didn't think their domain names through. Some of them are prime candidates for the "What was I thinking?" . . . more
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December 29, 2007 11:54 AM EST --
It may be in rather bad taste to mention this ? but when has that ever stopped me?
We could not help noticing a sub-headline to on of the reports of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto read "Pakistan's . . . more
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November 22, 2007 12:04 PM EST --
British Chain Store Marks & Spencer is putting J-cup bras on sale for the first time as customers demand larger sizes. The chain is trialling the garments on the internet before deciding whether . . . more
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March 19, 2008 03:52 PM EDT --
I guess the McCartney divorce story has hit news bulletins around the world now...
Mr. McCartney was sleeping fitfully in his lonely bed, drifting in and out of dreams, taunted by . . . more
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November 10, 2007 11:29 AM EST --
Munching my brunch of scrambled free range eggs on wholemeal bread and sipping my fair trade Orange Juice yesterday, I sumbled upon a TV show in which a “western” Feng Shui expert was . . . more
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December 05, 2007 11:38 AM EST --
We owe some sympathy to Maurice Fox a retired bus driver from Paignton, Devon, who likes nothing better than to enjoy a few drinks in the company of his friends at the local social club. Mr Fox has been . . . more
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January 02, 2008 01:03 PM EST --
Don't we love all the predictions that are trotted out at this time of year and all those talking heads who queue up to tell us what will happen in the coming months. They are never right of course, . . . more
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March 03, 2008 12:24 PM EST --
If we were in the business of rehabilitating criminals in the prison system so that on being discharged they were equipped to take their place in society and earn and honest living how would we go about . . . more
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March 10, 2008 12:03 PM EDT --
To be published this week, a new scientific study of sleeplessness lists amongst its findings that one common cause of sleeplessness is watching a television news bulletin before going to bed.
The . . . more
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March 14, 2008 03:42 PM EDT --
This is a story I posted on Boggart Blog three years ago, before I was at Gather. I exhume it now because a) its funny; b) the phenomenon is happening again I hear.
Wild life experts around . . . more
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March 15, 2008 12:25 PM EDT --
TOP COMEDY news of the week. The downfall of New York politician Eliot Spritzer this week reminds us how a name can affect a persons behaviour, what path they choose in life and ultmiately their fate. . . . more
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April 13, 2008 12:11 PM EDT --
Why are there so many flavours of Gather Thought Police. And why do these people have in common that irritating trait of hitting the keyboard before they switch on their brain.
Today someone called . . . more
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April 10, 2006 12:04 PM EDT --
Sometimes I despair of our language, and of other languages too. The English speaking nations are not the only ones that are abandoning the beauty of language for speed and efficiency, French, Italian, . . . more
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March 04, 2008 11:04 AM EST --
The Democratic Party claim their candidates lost the last two elections due to sharp practice, the hanging chad election in the state of Florida swinging the vote the Republicans' way in 2000 and . . . more
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April 11, 2008 12:14 PM EDT --
Thinking Outside The Bubble
Readers who prefer a larger typeface with more whitespace between lines may like to read this article at Greenteeth Multi Media The link opens the page in . . . more
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May 10, 2008 12:45 PM EDT --
While looking at Crooks and Liars yesterday reading comments on one of the articles which had suggested John McCain's belligerent stance on Iraq and commitment to "staying in" indefinitely . . . more
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December 28, 2007 12:44 PM EST --
Did you hear about the Zen Buddhist who went into Starbucks and said, "Make me one with everything."
That's all I have the energy for today.
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July 08, 2008 12:26 PM EDT --
The Republican lady promised me marshmallows, complains Blue Gal in this video blog .
I had to tell her "Beware of republicans bearing marshmallows". Remember the Stapuft Marshmallow . . . more
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