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    <title>fried_chicken @ 2009-11-09T09:01:00</title>
    <published>2009-11-09T10:36:32Z</published>
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    <content type="html">Twenty years since the fall of the Berlin wall, it's strange to see it written own and be such a large number. &amp;nbsp;I remember being in High School and watching the news reports about it at the time, I remember our History teacher, Mr O'Connell scrapping the lesson he had planned for that week and just talking to us pretty much for an hour straight about what this meant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've been chatting to one of the guys in the office this morning about it as I knew he was based out in Germany in the Army Intelligence Corps. &amp;nbsp;I thought he shipped out after the Wall had fallen, but apparently not. &amp;nbsp;He remembers the event more vividly apparently as the weekend before was the first day he was covering the East German desk by himself on a Saturday and all hell broken loose as reports started rolling in about the East German Army starting to move.&lt;br type="_moz" /&gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:fried_chicken:111476</id>
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    <title>Something I thought people might enjoy...</title>
    <published>2009-09-23T09:39:14Z</published>
    <updated>2009-09-23T10:01:05Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&amp;nbsp;These are from a book called Disorder in the American Courts, and are things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and now published by court reporters who had the torment of staying calm while these exchanges were actually taking place.&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ATTORNEY: Are you sexually active?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;WITNESS: No, I just lie there.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;____________________________________________&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ATTORNEY: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;WITNESS: Yes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ATTORNEY: And in what ways does it affect your memory?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;WITNESS: I forget.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ATTORNEY: You forget? Can you give us an example of something you forgot?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;___________________________________________&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a name="cutid1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;div&gt;ATTORNEY: Do you know if your daughter has ever been involved in voodoo?&lt;div&gt;WITNESS: We both do.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ATTORNEY: Voodoo?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;WITNESS: We do.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ATTORNEY: You do?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;WITNESS: Yes, voodoo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;____________________________________________&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ATTORNEY: Now doctor, isn't it true that when a person dies in his sleep, he doesn't know about it until the next morning?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;WITNESS: Did you actually pass the bar exam?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;____________________________________&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ATTORNEY: The youngest son, the twenty-year-old, how old is he?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;WITNESS: He's twenty, much like your IQ.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;___________________________________________&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ATTORNEY: Were you present when your picture was taken?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;WITNESS: Are you shitting me?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;_________________________________________&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ATTORNEY: So the date of conception (of the baby) was August 8th?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;WITNESS: Yes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ATTORNEY: And what were you doing at that time?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;WITNESS: getting laid&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;____________________________________________&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ATTORNEY: She had three children, right?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;WITNESS: Yes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ATTORNEY: How many were boys?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;WITNESS: None.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ATTORNEY: Were there any girls?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;WITNESS: Your Honor, I think I need a different attorney. Can I get a new attorney?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;____________________________________________&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ATTORNEY: How was your first marriage terminated?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;WITNESS: By death.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ATTORNEY: And by whose death was it terminated?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;WITNESS: Take a guess.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;____________________________________________&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ATTORNEY: Can you describe the individual?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;WITNESS: He was about medium height and had a beard.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ATTORNEY: Was this a male or a female?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;WITNESS: Unless the Circus was in town I'm going with male.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;_____________________________________&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ATTORNEY: Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a deposition notice which I sent to your attorney?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;WITNESS: No, this is how I dress when I go to work.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;______________________________________&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ATTORNEY: Doctor, how many of your autopsies have you performed on dead people?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;WITNESS: All of them. The live ones put up too much of a fight.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;_________________________________________&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ATTORNEY: ALL your responses MUST be oral, OK? What school did you go to?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;WITNESS: Oral.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;_________________________________________&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ATTORNEY: Do you recall the time that you examined the body?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;WITNESS: The autopsy started around 8:30 p.m.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ATTORNEY: And Mr. Denton was dead at the time?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;WITNESS: If not, he was by the time I finished.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;____________________________________________&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ATTORNEY: Are you qualified to give a urine sample?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;WITNESS: Are you qualified to ask that question?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;______________________________________&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And the best for last:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ATTORNEY: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;WITNESS: No.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ATTORNEY: Did you check for blood pressure?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;WITNESS: No.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ATTORNEY: Did you check for breathing?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;WITNESS: No.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ATTORNEY: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;WITNESS: No.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ATTORNEY: How can you be so sure, Doctor?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;WITNESS: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ATTORNEY: I see, but could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;WITNESS: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content>
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    <title>A little numb...</title>
    <published>2009-09-21T07:38:16Z</published>
    <updated>2009-09-21T07:38:16Z</updated>
    <content type="html">Everything is a little up in the air at the moment emotionally, I found out last week that one of my friends - John - has terminal cancer. &amp;nbsp;He's been given 2-3 months, perhaps a little longer depending on treatment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The real kick in the teeth is that John has been a chef for most of his life, he likes good food, but part and parcel of the chef thing seems to be heavy smoking and a fair amount of alcohol. &amp;nbsp;This type of cancer isn't tied to smoking or alcohol at all though apparently, one of the things it ties to is a bad diet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes the universe has a sick sense of humour.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's all a little big to take in and process, to be honest I'm not certain how much of it I&amp;nbsp;do want to take onboard. &amp;nbsp;I don't want it to change the way I look at or deal with John, because if that was me, I&amp;nbsp;think I'd hate that more than anything.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kat's been really supportive of John while all this is going on, it's one of the things that makes me love her. &amp;nbsp;At times she can come across to people that don't know her well as quite self-centered, but whenever one of her friends needs help or support though she'll drop everything and try and do what she can. &amp;nbsp;It definitely puts her under the category of a 'good person' in my book, no matter how much the goth in her may try to deny it.</content>
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    <title>Miss Swift goes to Washington...</title>
    <published>2009-09-17T09:55:14Z</published>
    <updated>2009-09-17T09:55:14Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;a name="cutid1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, today at school Anwen has to give a speech to her class about why they should pick her to be on the School Council.&amp;nbsp; Competition seems to be tough apparently with twelve children all interested in the two opennings (one boy and one girl from each class) and although she wants to do it, she seems to be being realistic about the fact with so many people going for it chances are slim of her actually getting it.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; So over the past couple of weeks when the topic has come up we've spoken about why she's interested in doing it, why she thinks she could do a good job and jotted down some notes -&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; I want to avoid breaking into business speak and saying that my daughter and I brainstormed the key points that she could bring to the role.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; - I've tried not to push the issue and left it down to her when and how much she's wanted to do whenever it's come up, because I don't want to turn into those ultra pushy parents, if she's interested in doing something like this I'll help as much as I can but as it's meant to be a bit of fun then as far as I'm concerned it's got to be on her terms.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; On Tuesday evening we pulled everything together so she's got a quick intro, three statements about why she things that she'd be a good choice and then a closing statement.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Perhaps most importantly she's coloured in the back of her speech with a bright &amp;quot;Vote for me&amp;quot; motif&amp;nbsp; which they'll be able to see when she's reading from it.&amp;nbsp; A couple of practice runs through and we'll see how she does tonight.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Would be great for her if she gets it, but she seems to have had fun doing everything this far so if not it's definitely not the end of the world.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Posted by&lt;br /&gt; - Gav&lt;br /&gt;</content>
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    <title>Catching up on films...</title>
    <published>2009-09-16T07:44:58Z</published>
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    <content type="html">Seem to have been watching a fair few films recently, some brand new and others that have been around for a couple of years but I just either never got around to watching at the cinema or bought them because they looked interesting on DVD and just never had the time to actually sit down and watch them, in fact I've still got &lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206634/"&gt;Children of Men&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443543/"&gt;The Illusionist&lt;/a&gt; that must have been sitting on my shelf unwatched for nearly two years now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One was &lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338013/"&gt;Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind&lt;/a&gt;, it looked really good on the trailers and Jim Carrey dispite how his career got launched seems to be exceptionally good at playing sublte characters within odd or surrel settings.&amp;nbsp; Finally got around to seeing it in the last couple of weeks and really enjoyed it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last night was &lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780536/"&gt;In Bruges&lt;/a&gt;, a wonderfully black comedy about a pair of hitmen laying low after something goes badly wrong and a child gets killed in the cross fire, dealing with the emotional fallout from such an event.&amp;nbsp; Well worth looking at if you've not come across it before and I can't praise it enough, but equally don't want to spoil anything for people that haven't already seen it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Went to see &lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361748/"&gt;Inglourious Basterds&lt;/a&gt; at the cinema as well, it seems to have split opinions on it - as so many Tarantino films seem to do - but I really enjoyed it.&amp;nbsp; Some of the critisim is very odd though, I&amp;nbsp;don't know about you lot but when I go to the cinema I'm not often looking for a film to be documentary like in it's historical accuracy, I want something that is just enjoyable, whether it's through a good script, story, acting or combination of the three.&amp;nbsp; And with that in mind I&amp;nbsp;think it really delivered.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:fried_chicken:110378</id>
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    <title>Top 20 Google Searches...</title>
    <published>2009-09-10T14:36:15Z</published>
    <updated>2009-09-10T14:36:15Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&amp;nbsp;1. What would a...&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01477/what-would-a_1477761a.jpg" style="display: block; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; " alt="" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Never mind what the chair would look like, how would you know which direction you were going in?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;a name="cutid1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. Do g...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; " alt="" src="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01477/do-g_1477701a.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;You need to get out of your bedroom, dweeb, and go find out for yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. Does Gordon...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; " alt="" src="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01477/does-gordon_1477704a.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Does he ever? Several million UK taxpayers will confirm this.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4. How much wo...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; " alt="" src="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01477/how-much-wo_1477712a.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;The answer, apparently, is 357 butt cords of wood a day.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5. How wron...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; " alt="" src="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01477/how-wrong_1477716a.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Google thinks we were wrong but God disagrees. So Google overruled Him.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;6. I am e...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; " alt="" src="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01477/I-am-e_1477720a.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Is it the sheer number of them that does it for you? Or is it all that monosodium glutomate?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;7. I like to ta...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; " alt="" src="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01477/I-like-to-ta_1477723a.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;You really don't need to do that. Blockbuster still stocks Jurassic Park, we're told.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;8. I need a...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; " alt="" src="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01477/I-need-a_1477726a.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Me, too. Where can I buy one?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;9. I want to ki...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; " alt="" src="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01477/I-want-to-ki_1477728a.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Yep - homicide, patricide, fratricide, matricide. All perfectly reasonable search terms.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;10. Is a...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; " alt="" src="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01477/is-a_1477732a.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Is a banana a herb? Public schoolboys everywhere will tell you that it can be if you dry the skin, roll it in a cigarette paper and set fire to it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;11. Is it impossible to...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; " alt="" src="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01477/Is-it-impossible_1477734a.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;It is absolutely impossible to lick your elbow. But drinking a gallon of milk in an hour?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;12. My poop...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; " alt="" src="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01477/my-poop_1477741a.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;How frequently does it change colour? Should I be examining mine, too?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;13. I like to play with...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; " alt="" src="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01477/i-like-to-play_1477899a.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Not the other kids, or your toys? You'll go blind, you know?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;14. Where is chu...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; " alt="" src="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01477/where-is-chu_1477743a.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Chuck Norris, the stereotype of the 1980s action film muscle man, has been a little quiet lately. Perhaps he's lying low after seeing this Google Suggest suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;15. Who took my...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; " alt="" src="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01477/who-took-my_1477744a.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Perhaps you shouldn't have been so careless with it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;16. Why is my g...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; " alt="" src="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01477/why-is-my-g_1477746a.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;Goldfish generally turn black when you put copper sulphate in the aquarium. Next...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;17. Why is my sn...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; " alt="" src="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01477/why-is-my-sn_1477747a.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;May be your snake isn't eating because you're only offering him orange snot. It might account for the floating snail, too.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;18. Why is there a...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; " alt="" src="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01477/why-is-there-a_1477748a.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;How long has he been there? The quote - from an episode of&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Lost&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;- was once voted the best quote of all time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;19. Can I have a go on...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; " alt="" src="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01477/Canihavea_1477852a.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;No, but it's open season on my wholemeal rolls.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;20. I feel like a...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; " alt="" src="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01477/i-feel-like-a_1477757a.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&gt;We sympathise - it's that Monday morning feeling down on the farm. This classic phrase is from the cult movie&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Withnail and I.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:fried_chicken:110029</id>
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    <title>Chalice of Filth...</title>
    <published>2009-09-09T12:38:18Z</published>
    <updated>2009-09-09T12:38:18Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">&lt;div&gt;Father Nurgle settled his great mass down among the supporting heap of his smallest minions. Those lucky enough to escape being crushed by their master&amp;rsquo;s bulk squealed delightedly as they snuggled in to the damp warmth of his flesh. Nurgle reclined comfortably and let out a long groan. It was all so unbearably tedious.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;ldquo;I&amp;rsquo;m bored,&amp;rdquo; he said, letting eons of ennui show in his voice.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5385em; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a name="cutid1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;ldquo;Nurgle is bored. Two thousand two hundred and twenty two,&amp;rdquo; muttered Fabian, most conscientious of his Plaguebearers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;ldquo;Nurgle is bored,&amp;rdquo; roared Manthrax the Minotaur, swatting at a Nurgling who came too close.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;ldquo;Nurgle is bored.&amp;rdquo; The muttered undercurrent passed round the interior of Warp. Some of the wiser champions were beginning to back off.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A few Nurglings burst out of Father Nurgle&amp;rsquo;s exposed innards and swam like tadpoles in the pus that surrounded them. He raised one gently and placed it on the arm of his throne, tickling its stomach so that it giggled.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He gave a phlegmy sigh.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of his followers shuffled forwards, &amp;ldquo;perhaps a game, Great Nurgle?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;ldquo;What kind of game?&amp;rdquo; he asked wearily.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;ldquo;Blood Bowl, oh loathsome one,&amp;rdquo; the decaying husk capered as it spoke, &amp;ldquo;the Norse are putting a new league together&amp;hellip;&amp;rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His followers waited with baited breath for his response. Blood Bowl, he though, feeling a slight glimmer of interest almost in spite of himself. A part of him had been enjoying wallowing in melancholia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps he should treat the world the joys of his attention once more. At the very least it may enable him to recruit another Halfling chef, after the last one had literally rotted away into soup.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He looked down on his children and smiled. They tittered in relief.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;ldquo;A lesson for you, my pretties,&amp;rdquo; he said. &amp;ldquo;No matter how we feel we must always think of our public. Let the try-outs begin!&amp;rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He brought his fist down hard on the Nurgling. It burst with an emphatic squelch.&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5385em; margin-left: 40px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 40px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So things seem to be going well with the Blood Bowl league, even after loosing to the Dwarves on Monday the Nurgle team is still - amazingly - topping the league tables and it's been a really good laugh getting back into it again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kat's got a ton of ideas when it comes to painting the team so I&amp;nbsp;think it's going to be a case of let her go wild and have some fun with it.</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:fried_chicken:109584</id>
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    <title>Now that's just odd...</title>
    <published>2009-09-04T08:25:59Z</published>
    <updated>2009-09-04T08:26:40Z</updated>
    <content type="html">Just logged into facebook to respond to a friend request... and my default language was set to French... you'd think you'd remember doing something like that, right?!&amp;nbsp;</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:fried_chicken:109460</id>
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    <title>Cunning plans that cause more merriment than they really ought too...</title>
    <published>2009-09-04T08:08:38Z</published>
    <updated>2009-09-04T08:26:27Z</updated>
    <category term="gaming"/>
    <content type="html">&lt;span class='ljuser ljuser-name_davedevil' lj:user='davedevil' style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='http://davedevil.livejournal.com/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif' alt='[info]' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='http://davedevil.livejournal.com/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;davedevil&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;'s latest post&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://davedevil.livejournal.com/587090.html"&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;has brought back a lot of wonderful memories about the old Huddersfield Mage game.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tom and I&amp;nbsp;were both sharing a house at the time with Derek the ST and both playing characters that were young, idealist, somewhat messed up and at times very, very foolish.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have so many fond memories of our two man terror campaign against the Technocracy, like infiltrating the Progenator's lab dressed pretty much as Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker and pretending to be Void Engineer's; coming away from it with some valuable information, a talking plant, a couple of packets of Chocolate Hobnobs and the Lab's put upon tea boy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My favourite had to be the planned raid on a Syndicate quitessense shipment which we'd planned out pretty much as the Italian Job, and led to months of Tom and I&amp;nbsp;pausing while wandering around Huddersfield, looking thoughtfully at something and then asking whoever we were with at the time &amp;quot;Do you think you could get a mini through there?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the things I&amp;nbsp;think I&amp;nbsp;enjoyed the most about those old games though was Derek's storytelling, he managed to put across a very dark and sinister world and we really were the underdogs with whatever grasp we had slowly slipping away... seemingly kooky plans became a way of trying to trying to stand against it all and try and keep some hold on sanity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br type="_moz" /&gt;</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:fried_chicken:109160</id>
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    <title>Tom Cruise, Collateral, and other such things...</title>
    <published>2009-09-03T14:40:27Z</published>
    <updated>2009-09-03T14:56:57Z</updated>
    <category term="film"/>
    <content type="html">I introduced Kat to &lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0369339/"&gt;Collateral &lt;/a&gt;earlier on this week, I'd forgotten quite how good a film it is and proves that hey, you know what Tom Cruise can actually act outside of the same old Plot Railroad that a lot of his films seem to shunt along down, that being:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 40px; "&gt;Tom Cruise plays a ***, a pretty damn good ***, until he has a crisis of confidence and is saved in the end only by the love a of woman&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Replace *** with any of the following; fighter pilot, hustler, marketting exec, soldier, secret agent, bartender, etc, etc.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then again it's not the type of film that appeals to the usual Tom Cruise audience, which got me thinking about films that people who fall into a certain social bracket should definitely make sure they see.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Things like;&lt;br /&gt;- geeks everywhere should watch &lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/"&gt;Hackers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- roleplayers would be mad to miss &lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/"&gt;Gattica &lt;/a&gt;and &lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119099/"&gt;Fallen&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;- anybody with a twisted sense of humour should see &lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0179116/"&gt;But I'm a Cheerleader&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Feel free to throw your own.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And now that I've praised Tom Cruise at the start of the post, time to balance the universal scales somewhat with some Jonathon Coulton.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br type="_moz" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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    <title>70 years ago today...</title>
    <published>2009-09-03T12:32:49Z</published>
    <updated>2009-09-03T16:41:03Z</updated>
    <content type="html">The start of World War II, or at least the announcement of Britain's involvement as they declared a state of war with Germany, was 70 years ago today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Practically a life time ago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's still somewhat sobering to think that practically everybody that I&amp;nbsp;know will have had relatives that were involved in WWII&amp;nbsp;in one way or another, and there are times when I&amp;nbsp;wish I'd have been old enough to speak to my Grand Parents, and Great Aunts and Uncles about their experiences before they passed away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Strangely it was a topic I&amp;nbsp;hit on with my Uncles at Danielle's wedding a few months back, my grandad never really spoke about what happened to Mark (the youngest or my Uncles), or my Mum, but Stuart knew a lot more. &amp;nbsp;Before that conversation I&amp;nbsp;knew he was in the Navy, but that was about it. &amp;nbsp;He'd been a gunner on the HMS Birmingham, one of the ships protecting the Merchant Fleet as it crossed the Atlantic and had been on the boat when it was torpedoed, his Brother worked as a mechanic for the RAF, my Grandma worked in the munitions factories in Sheffield and her younger sister spent the war working in Eygpt. &amp;nbsp;There's a huge photo journal that she kept while she was over there that my Uncle still has.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's odd to think about something that we're taught so much about during school is even now beginning to pass out of living memory.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div url="http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7917.shtml"&gt;The BBC&amp;nbsp;posted Chamberlain's radio announcement &lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7917.shtml"&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:fried_chicken:108328</id>
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    <title>Storage in the Cloud...</title>
    <published>2009-08-28T14:50:40Z</published>
    <updated>2009-08-28T15:02:52Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">The idea of single storage within secure areas of the Cloud seems to be coming more and more common this year, in fact I'd pretty much label 2009 as the Year of the Cloud, I&amp;nbsp;don;t know if anybody else has had a play around with SkyDrive on Windows Live yet, but &lt;a href="http://www.zumodrive.com/"&gt;THIS&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;seems to be something very similar in idea... however taking it to the next step.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Basically it creates a new drive on your computer(s) / iPhone that is actually on the net, you drag and drop your files in there and they're then available whenever you're online with the software itself keeping local stores of your frequently accessed files (where space is available).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;1Gb is free, up to 10Gb is $2.99 per month, ranging up to 500Gb of storage for $79.99.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Be interesting to see what comes next.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br type="_moz" /&gt;</content>
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  <entry>
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    <title>Something in the air...</title>
    <published>2009-08-26T11:16:39Z</published>
    <updated>2009-09-03T14:50:32Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&amp;nbsp;It seems to be one of those weird days, everybody in the office is irritable... including myself.</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:fried_chicken:107985</id>
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    <title>She rides....</title>
    <published>2009-08-18T12:33:22Z</published>
    <updated>2009-08-18T12:33:22Z</updated>
    <category term="blood bowl"/>
    <content type="html">So last night was the first outing of Chalice of Filth, my Nurgle Blood Bowl team, against a Khemari (think Skeleton's and Mummies with shoulder pads and a bad attitude) team which already had a couple of games under their belt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Khemari can be a very overpowering team with Mummies that are incredibly destructive, so it was a real boost when one of my shabbling, disease ridden, walking corpses managed to kill one off permenantly by putting the boot in while it was on the floor during the first push... and that helped to set the scene for the rest of the match.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although there was no other deaths, I&amp;nbsp;managed to get a 3-0 victory, inflicted a couple of casulties without taking anything Regeneration didn't throw off, and managed the first successful Long Bomb pass out of all the games played... not to bad when you consider the Nurgle team have the ball handling skills you'd expect of players that tend to leave bits of themselves scattered around the pitch as they sloth off.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just got to see how things progress from here on in, but it's a cracking start.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br type="_moz" /&gt;</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:fried_chicken:107750</id>
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    <title>Death from shock and blood loss is almost instantanous...</title>
    <published>2009-08-13T13:29:07Z</published>
    <updated>2009-08-13T13:32:12Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">So &lt;a href="http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_minisite_sec.asp?eidm=93&amp;amp;esem=1"&gt;WFRP 3rd&lt;/a&gt; edition?! &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Definitely different. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It really is striking me as almost a relaunch of Advanced HeroQuest rather than Warhammer though, but it does seem to be a direction that a lot of the games industry is going in these days which we started to see with books like *shudders*&amp;nbsp;Cyberpunk 3rd Ed, the idea that to fit in with the groundwork laid down in computer games and MMorpg's people don't want to spend a long time going through character creation, they just want to be able to pick something up there and then and run with it, after making only a few basic decisions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now to a certain extent I&amp;nbsp;can see the appeal there, but equally by trying to condense down and make it as quick and simple as possible you also start loosing a lot of the depth that was previously there and difference that would often creep in to Characters that would otherwise be identical.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A lot of people seem to be hung up on the custom dice decision, but as far as I'm concerned it tends to be a side issue, games just need some method of adding in a randomising factor whether it's D10, Block Dice, Stuff or just three 2p coins they all pretty much do the same job, it's what they've decided to cut back out of the rest of it which concerns me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I&amp;nbsp;think it will definitely be a case of watch and wait.</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:fried_chicken:107339</id>
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    <title>Puns for a slow day...</title>
    <published>2009-08-13T11:42:43Z</published>
    <updated>2009-08-13T13:38:05Z</updated>
    <category term="humour"/>
    <content type="html">Don't know what it is about today but it's looking like it's going to be a slow one here in Manchester. &amp;nbsp;So I'm having to resort to posting very, very bad puns. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;nbsp;warn you in advance, they will make you groan. &amp;nbsp;Enjoy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The roundest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference He acquired his size from too much pi&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved her still&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="cutid1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;A rubber band catapult was confiscated from algebra class because it was a weapon of maths disruption&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blown apart&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two silk worms had a race They ended up in a tie&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Time flies like an arrow Fruit flies like a banana&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall the police are looking into it&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Atheism is a non-prophet organization&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat said to the other, 'You stay here; I'll go on a head'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger Then it hit me&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said: Keep off the Grass'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A small boy swallowed some coins and was taken to a hospital.  When his grandmother telephoned to ask how he was, a nurse said, 'No change yet'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The man who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A backward poet writes inverse&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In democracy it's your vote that counts In feudalism it's your count that votes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When cannibals ate a missionary, they got a taste of religion&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't join dangerous cults: Practice safe sects</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:fried_chicken:107051</id>
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    <title>General musing, the Dresden Files and can something really be better than Neuromancer...</title>
    <published>2009-08-13T10:32:48Z</published>
    <updated>2009-08-13T10:40:44Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">So after much persuasion and cajoling I've been suckered into reading the Dresden File books. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;nbsp;don't know if it's just me, but whenever so many people tell you something is great and that 'it's really you' and 'you'll love it' literally forcing copies of books, dvds or music - mainly books though - upon you that it sometimes has the opposite effect of making me less inclined to actually pick it up and take a look.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe it's worry over disappointing somebody else if you try it and just find that it's not your thing, or not as great as they make out; which happened memoribly with recommendations of &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Oranges-are-Not-Only-Fruit/dp/0099935708/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1250158952&amp;amp;sr=8-1"&gt;Oranges or Not the Only Fruit&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Generation-X-Tales-Accelerated-Culture/dp/0349108390/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1250158924&amp;amp;sr=8-1"&gt;Generation X&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Possibly it could just be the fact that you find certain genres only appealling when you're in the right mood or mental state to read them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Or perhaps it's just sheer bloody mindedness that, &amp;quot;I'll get around to reading it when I'm good and ready!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All that aside though after somewhere in the region of two years harassment last month I&amp;nbsp;picked up &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Storm-Front-Dresden-Case-Files/dp/1841493988/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1250158848&amp;amp;sr=8-1"&gt;Storm Front&lt;/a&gt; and started on it. &amp;nbsp;three or so weeks on from that and last night I&amp;nbsp;started the &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/White-Night-Dresden-Case-Files/dp/1841496871/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1250158875&amp;amp;sr=8-3"&gt;ninth book&lt;/a&gt; in the series.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They are very good, flow really easily, good character progression, and Jim Butcher either has a fixed overal plot arc in mind or is far and above a better writter than I've so far given him credit for.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This morning got me thinking about whether or not they're the types of books I'd happily come back to though and re-read, which then led to further trains of though about books that I&amp;nbsp;will quite happily pick up a second, third, sixth or twenty third time and why.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Amber series is a set of books that I&amp;nbsp;will quite happily go back to over and over again, every time I read it I&amp;nbsp;pick up on additional things and new takes on old events and it's just so easy to get drawn into Zelazny's storytelling. &amp;nbsp;I&amp;nbsp;got &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Manna-Heaven-Stephen-Brust/dp/1592241999/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1250158816&amp;amp;sr=8-1"&gt;Manna from Heaven&lt;/a&gt; last year and reading through some of the shorts in there really does make me wish he'd had the opportunity to bring out the third series.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tokaido-Road-Novel-Feudal-Japan/dp/0345370260/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1250159013&amp;amp;sr=8-5"&gt;Tokaido Road&lt;/a&gt; is another that I&amp;nbsp;first bought 12 years ago when I&amp;nbsp;was introduced to L5R and have gone through several copies of as I&amp;nbsp;lend them out to people and then am forced to replace them - usually because they haven't got around to reading it before I&amp;nbsp;get the itch to pick it up once more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A more recent addition to the list is &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Electric-Church-Jeff-Somers/dp/1841496162/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1250159203&amp;amp;sr=8-1"&gt;Electric Church&lt;/a&gt;, I&amp;nbsp;don't know whether or not it will last the duration like the others as I've only had it a year or so, but - and I can hear the lynch mob sharpening their pitch forks while I type this - I&amp;nbsp;think I&amp;nbsp;may actually perfer it to &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Neuromancer-William-Gibson/dp/0006480411/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1250159383&amp;amp;sr=8-1"&gt;Neuromancer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;What about you lot though, what books do you find yourself going back to over and over again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br type="_moz" /&gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:fried_chicken:107001</id>
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    <title>Photos from my sisters wedding...</title>
    <published>2009-08-11T09:16:34Z</published>
    <updated>2009-08-11T09:16:34Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">So, just over a month ago my sister got married. it's taken me this long to post about it because just thinking about the expense of the entire thing threatens my sanity... well perhaps it's just the fact that I've been busy, but it's as good an excuse as anything.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The place itself was amazing, I&amp;nbsp;can completely understand why she fell in love with it when she first saw it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;nbsp;thought I'd share some of the photos from it with folks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="cutid1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://www.towyarchitects.com/projects/01~Hotels_&amp;amp;_Golf_Courses/00~The_Manor_House_-_Castle_Combe/images/Photo-15-The-Manor-House-H.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The place itself really was fabulous, was used as the manor house in the film adaptation of Stardust apparently.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2627/3811159964_59d0f8c7dd.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anwen and me after the meal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2638/3810347505_61c40525c1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anwen in her flower girl getup.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3532/3811163328_9c56c06cd0.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br type="_moz" /&gt;</content>
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    <title>Johnny Cash - 'Hurt"</title>
    <published>2009-08-10T09:01:21Z</published>
    <updated>2009-08-10T09:02:41Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">I love this version of the song, definitely one of those very few cases where I prefer the cover to the original version.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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    <title>Windows 7 musings...</title>
    <published>2009-08-07T10:29:44Z</published>
    <updated>2009-08-07T10:29:44Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">So I've been messing around with the RC for Windows 7 at work over the past couple of months, it seems pretty good and so much more stable than Vista ever was. &amp;nbsp;Resource utilization is much tamer than Vista as well (whoever came up with the Sidebar coding wants shooting).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm even contemplating making the move from XP over to it at home, just fired off an order for a 2TB NAS&amp;nbsp;so that I&amp;nbsp;can consolodate all the tat off the PCs and laptops, once that's done I might rebuild one of the laptops first and if all goes well move over the main PC too... probably about time as it's been nearly 18 months since I&amp;nbsp;last rebuilt it and it's starting to get a little clogged up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Potentially the sad thing though is one of the main reasons I'm thinking about it is because it comes with Chess Titans, it was the only reason I fired Vista Ultimate on a laptop in the first place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br type="_moz" /&gt;</content>
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    <title>Taking of Pelham 123</title>
    <published>2009-08-06T12:10:32Z</published>
    <updated>2009-08-06T12:10:32Z</updated>
    <category term="film"/>
    <content type="html">Thoroughly enjoyable, wonderfully acted and nicely written. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not much else needs to be said, it's a very good film.</content>
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    <title>Blood Bowl name advise...</title>
    <published>2009-08-03T11:10:06Z</published>
    <updated>2009-08-03T11:10:06Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">So, after my heart felt post this morning got sidelined comment-wise by a two line comment about Blood Bowl ;-) &amp;nbsp;I&amp;nbsp;figure I&amp;nbsp;should capitalise on the sudden enthusiam to get some help on Character names.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So 1x Beast of Nurgle, 2x Nurgle Warriors, 3x Pestigors (Nurgle Beastmen) and 6x Rotters (decay and pestilent riddled walking corpses)... but I'm stuck on the most important part, which is names.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So what type of thing can people come up with, I'm thinking names for players like Johnny Bubonic etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;</content>
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    <title>The good, the bad, and the scary-ass clown...</title>
    <published>2009-08-03T09:38:19Z</published>
    <updated>2009-08-03T09:38:42Z</updated>
    <content type="html">It's been an up and down couple of weeks, fortunately all is now well and things are probably much better than before because of it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pretty much all stems from the fact that after what happened to Jen's and my relationship after she'd had Anwen and the toll that post natal depression took on us both that I&amp;nbsp;am absolutely terrified of the thought of going through all that again. &amp;nbsp;Couple that with the fact that Kat really wants kids and my stubborn streak that tends to have me planting my feet firmly and refusing to give and inch and you can see why it all made for an interesting time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's been something that's been on the cards for a while, but everything else has always been so good that it was just something that we both thought would be the end of the relationship at some point in the future. &amp;nbsp;Problem can be that things bubbling away in the background like that do start to have an effect on your thinking as you get into the mindset of &amp;quot;well it's going to end at some point anyway...&amp;quot; and it just becomes the scary ass clown in the corner that nobody wants to talk about but whose presence is always felt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway it's all been worked through and the scary ass clown has been taken out back and shot; just in case he attempts to sneak back in.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And with that all out the way, onto the lighter side of the past few weeks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Other than that I&amp;nbsp;took some days off work and travelled around North Wales visiting Castles with Anwen, have got a load of work done on the house, and perhaps the most exciting - in a geeky way - is that we're starting up a Blood Bowl League in Huddersfield. &amp;nbsp;I&amp;nbsp;don't think I've played Blood Bowl since I&amp;nbsp;was around 15, but have some many good memories about it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Looks like it's going to be a Nurgle team, purely for the humour factor. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br type="_moz" /&gt;</content>
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    <title>UK Mobile Directory</title>
    <published>2009-07-08T15:03:06Z</published>
    <updated>2009-07-08T15:07:48Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;"&gt;Early next week all UK mobiles will be on a directory which will mean that anyone&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;will be able to access your numbers; after a fashion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Seems to be a case of they register an interest in your number and you then receive a text message letting you know they are requesting it, so it's not as bad as a lot of people are making out when it comes to it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you do want to unsubscribe though it seems pretty simple but&amp;nbsp;it must be done before the beginning of next week to make sure that you are&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;"&gt;ex-directory&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;"&gt;To remove your number click on the link below, you need your mobile phone with you to do this as they text you a code&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;"&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;"&gt;1, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.118800.co.uk/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;"&gt;http://www.118800.co.uk/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;"&gt;2, Click on &amp;lsquo;Ex Directory&amp;rsquo; at top right hand side of page, from there it&amp;rsquo;s straight forward.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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    <title>Tuesday night...</title>
    <published>2009-07-08T11:00:18Z</published>
    <updated>2009-07-08T11:14:06Z</updated>
    <category term="iaido"/>
    <content type="html">Iaido was good last night, Keith the usual sensei -- and the only person I&amp;nbsp;know that can switch betweem fluent japanese and a broad Yorkshire accent -- was up some scafolding reroofing his house which meant an evening of free practice and a rare chance to work through each of the 12 Seitei Kata one after another, before moving onto a couple of the old form Koryu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As Keith reminds us so often that we're tempted to get it on a t-shirt for him each kata should be one fluid motion with changes of pace and I'm definitely starting to see the transitions smooth between it all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Got into an interesting conversation with one of the guys there through when I&amp;nbsp;found out he does Kyudo (Japanese archery) and is heading over to the International Seminar in Hungary in a couple of weeks.</content>
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