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Via This is True: The “Black Friday” start to the holiday shopping season got off to a bang as shoppers tried to be first to get limited merchandise at the Walmart store in the Porter Ranch section of Los Angeles, Calif. Just after it opened its doors, about 100 people streamed in to vie for [...]

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Roger Federer mugged

Posted on December 2nd, 2011 by Chuckles

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What am I?

Posted on November 29th, 2011 by Chuckles

Complies with Flickr policy

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Slivers of wisdom

Posted on November 29th, 2011 by Chuckles

1. When tempted to fight fire with fire, remember that the Fire Department usually uses water. 2. I always take life with a grain of salt.plus a slice of lemon and a shot of tequila. 3. If I agreed with you, we’d both be wrong. 4. We never really grow up; we only learn how [...]

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Quiz answers

Posted on November 28th, 2011 by James Higham

From last evening: 1. Which of almonds, peanuts, Brazil nuts and walnuts are nuts? If nuts are defined as “a simple dry fruit with one seed – very occasionally two – in which the seed case wall becomes hard at maturity”, then we can look at the “nuts” above and decide. Brazils are not nuts [...]

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Why did the salmon cross the road?

Posted on November 28th, 2011 by Chuckles

… because chickens are – like – so last week y’know.

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Late quiz

Posted on November 27th, 2011 by James Higham

Answers tomorrow morning: 1. Which of almonds, peanuts, Brazil nuts and walnuts are nuts? 2. What nationality was the Duke of Wellington? 3. Who said: “let them eat cake?” 4. Which is the hottest part of the chilli? 5. What’s Britain’s smallest bird? From Lloyd and Mitchinson’s Book of General Ignorance, F&F, 2008

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Warning to Mark Wadsworth

Posted on November 24th, 2011 by James Higham

They’re watching you, young man:

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Who are this girl and this boy?

Posted on November 23rd, 2011 by Chuckles

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The allure or not of Hollywood at rest

Posted on November 23rd, 2011 by James Higham

Am I the only person who does not find Diana Rigg or Norma Jean alluring?

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Places you don’t want to be [1]

Posted on November 23rd, 2011 by James Higham

Aokigahara Forest Near Yamanashi, at the foot of Fount Fuji: What Niagara Falls is to weddings, Aokigahara is to suicide. How many suicides does it takes for a place to get that reputation? A dozen? Fifty? More than 500 f***ing people have taken their own lives in Aokigahara since the 1950s. The trend has supposedly [...]

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Who needs Stuxnet?

Posted on November 22nd, 2011 by James Higham

Hey: Norwegian company FXI Technologies showed off an amazing USB stick-sized portable computer prototype on Friday, Nov. 18. Code-named Cotton Candy because its 21 gram weight is the same as a bag of the confection, the tiny PC enables what its inventor calls “any-screen computing”: the ability to turn any TV, laptop, phone, tablet, or [...]

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Occasional photo

Posted on November 22nd, 2011 by James Higham

[H/T Chuckles]

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Thanksgiving – when turkeys hide

Posted on November 21st, 2011 by James Higham

As Mrs. Beeton might have said: “First catch your turkey in the wild:

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Quick bites

Posted on November 20th, 2011 by James Higham

# Cure for immigration – Eric Pickles’ curry colleges. As subcontinent workers are severely cutback, our chavs will be at Pickles College, relearning how to make “1960s-era British curry, with apples and sultanas – dried fruit to you stateside Reg readers – mixed into a watery gloop with homeopathic levels of spice”. # Macheath who [...]

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Occasional photo

Posted on November 18th, 2011 by James Higham

Still scratching the bonce over that.

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Occasional photo

Posted on November 17th, 2011 by James Higham

Never changes, eh?

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Where are we?

Posted on November 17th, 2011 by Chuckles

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Where are we?

Posted on November 13th, 2011 by Chuckles

No takers on the last one. You get a hint this time – it’s near NYC, you wouldn’t have wanted to go near it in 1915:

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Friday evening quickies

Posted on November 11th, 2011 by James Higham

A few quick ones before closing down until tomorrow evening: UN Security Council panel fails to agree on Palestinian statehood bid Well, that’s one thing – predictable really. Now here are some shots of Japan six months after the quakes. And remember, as Monkey says: ‘Even a starving camel is still bigger than a horse.’

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Planes – every home should have one

Posted on November 11th, 2011 by Chuckles

From Dark Roasted Blend:

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Geoquiz [1] answers

Posted on November 11th, 2011 by James Higham

Geoquiz [1] questions 1. Krung thep maha nakorn amorn ratana kosinmahintar ayutthay amaha dilok phop noppa ratrajathani burirom udom rajaniwesmahasat harn amorn phimarn avatarn sathit sakkattiya visanukamprasit [Thailand]

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