nourishing obscurity

One from Dearieme: One from Swirling Calum:

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I started looking into this ridiculous super-injunction thing and came up with some awful, top-heavy Imogen someone who has a big brother and who allegedly sleeps with as many footballers as possible. Somehow it has something to do with goals rhyming with Scholes, whatever that means, as I don’t follow football. Everyone’s getting upset over [...]

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You remember face to face with a polar bear?  And polar bear justice?  Well, here’s what happened:  

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I saw Staff Benda Bilili last week on the BBC2 programme Later With Jools Holland

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Click pic to zoom Cafés

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Q1:  Match those in the first column with the behaviour and/or assets in the second: COLUMN 1 COLUMN 2 Berlusconi groping DFK young male pages Pippa fellatio Jeremy Thorpe normal nooky Mark Foley bottom Arnie bunga-bunga Fred Goodwin back passage Q2: Who is the most alluring of the seven?

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If we really have to fill in those *&^%* word verification things, then at least we can have some fun with them: All her pretty dreams were in ………. Blair and Brown were utter ………. [change one letter] Complete the sentence:

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Seems a pretty basic statement, doesn’t it?  Tyson Durden, at Zero Hedge, had this to say about war: But no matter. For as war is its very health, the state will have a war if it wants one, never mind how much the people, understandably, do not: Why, of course, the people don’t want war. [...]

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Search for ‘God particle’ is near end, say scientists The search for the so-called “God particle”, which would explain why matter has mass and there is gravity in the Universe, could be over by the end of next year, a leading scientist involved in the project predicts. Rolf-Dieter Heuer, the director general of the European [...]

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I’d not intended to blog again on DSK but when some new angle appears – well, a blogger must.  The Economic Policy Journal [h/t Sackerson] had a take on DSK and a couple of points stood out: 1.  Now as far as motive, there is certainly a reason on the part of the U.S. government [...]

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Below is the text of a typesetting company CEO’s examination of the Obama “birth certificate”. It only need be established that there are reasonable grounds for possible fraud and an investigation must take place by the law.   In a high profile case like this, it is even more important, due to the implications and scale [...]

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It can be argued that one of the most popular cars to restore in America is the 56 Buick Roadmaster [click pic for story]: The most nostalgically remembered in Australia are the Holden FJ and HD. Originally promoted as a family car, the former is pictured below:

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