# More orangey coloured yummy-ness,
peach.
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# A non-orange baby food success! Banana!
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# Papaya is another baby food winner. Natalie is starting to worry that the little bloke only likes food which is orange.
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# The new coffee machine at work seems to be the kind of thing foretold by
Douglas Adams
in the Hitch Hiker's Guide. It doesn't talk, fortunately, but does display cheery messages on a
little display panel.
THE BOILER IS OPERATING AT THE OPTIMUM VEND TEMPERATURE.
ENJOY A CUP OF FRESH TEA FROM THIS MACHINE NOW! PERK UP YOUR DAY!
PURCHASE A FRESH CAPPUCCINO FROM THIS VENDOR NOW OR ENJOY A CREAMY COFFEE.
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# Sweet potato?
Another yes!
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# Avocado?
Yes!
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# Continuing favourite baby rice, once mixed with a spoon or two of stewed apple becomes completely revolting.
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# Today's survey says
carrot and potato mash is okay, once you've gagged down the first few spoonfuls.
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# Looks like Matthew has exhausted the
Ashton piss-take possibilities and will shortly be turning his attention once more to me. I don't know if I'm more flattered or frightened. I think Ash-10's 2000AD near-miss could make a solid Emberstone screed, but apparently my unfunny dog-walking anecdotes and ill-focussed software industry analyses provide a better target.
In that vein then, a brief vegetable survey conducted with the little chap today reveals that pureed broccoli is the World's most disgusting vegetable, while mashed carrot is its most delightful.
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# Another day, Another Universe.com catalogue on the doormat.
Sigh
I spent $20 over 18 months ago on a Pikachu t-shirt (pre UK explosion - I can spot a coming kids trend)
as a present for Faye and since then they've sent me a catalogue in the post about every 8 weeks. Why do they think I would want a Barbie
sporting "the red, gold, and blue outfit of the Amazon princess, complete with blue cape trimmed with stars and stripes, silver wristbands, tiara
and lasso" or a limited edition (Woo!) Darkchylde lithograph "featuring the long-legged beauty in a skimpy as can be bikini"? It's all crap.
Get M-Rex 2 with an eye-popping (not to mention button-popping) sexy variant cover! Crap!
Star Trek: The 4 Captains 23K Gold Card Crap!
Iron Man Silver Age Gray Statue Real Crap!
Magneto's Magnetic Helment 4" Desk Sculpture really is magentic, perfect for holding paperclips UTTER FUCKING CRAP!
mike [e] said hi i want to order a free catalog how can i do that?
[added 1st May 2005]
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# In his last editorial, departing 2000AD editor (excuse me, editorial droid) David Bishop tooted his own trumpet rather
I believe the Galaxy's greatest comic is in better shape now than it was five years ago ... 2000AD is a
good read again ...
If I didn't get 2000AD
stuffed through the front door on a Saturday then I doubt very much I'd still be buying it. This isn't to say that there haven't
been good strips under Bishop, but rather that the lows were really quite low indeed, and the highs not quite so high. Anthology comics
are tricky things, and when 2000AD hits 5 good strips out of 5 it's fantastic. Generally though it hits 3 or 4 out of 5. Under Bishop it
often hit 2 out 5 - as his last issue did. Hopefully it isn't just misty eyed nostalgia, but 2000AD is not better now than 5 years ago.
The only person who thinks so is Bishop. New editor Andy Diggle certainly doesn't think so. In his editorial this week he says
... some Earthlets claim 2000AD "isn't as good as the old days". Well, I aim to put that right ... Over the next few months you'll be
seeing the best of the old and the best of the new in the Galaxy's Greatest Comic.
Well Hurrah! for that. Let's hope the new owners let him.
He also says there's the return of the late lamented Tharg's Future Shocks. Several would-be script-droids of my aquaintance
had submissions rejected by Bishop as being too much like a Future Shock. I would loved to be have been a fly on the wall in that
office, the tension must have been incredible.
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# elateral :)e_solutions for Global_Channel Marketing//:
Sounds like it's going to be
fucked to me.
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# Saw the stone-arse-dog nutter again on Saturday. He was disappointingly unfazed by the duck question.
Dog appeared to be stone free.
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# Interview with the editor of
FuckedCompany, or F***edCompany as it's called in the headline. Says fuck everywhere else though.
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# It might just be because I work in software that I find
FuckedCompany so amusing. The whole "Internet boom" sometimes seems like a house of cards built on the sand of
can you write me a program that does <insert stupid idea here>?
The answer to that question is always yes, thus enabling people to add over the Internet to their sales pitch, secure a big pile of funding and go out of business shortly thereafter. Take clothes retailing, well known to be a tricky proposition, even for those companies with long experience of flogging real clothes to real people. It's a low margin, relatively high overhead business with little scope for "efficiency". We'll save money but not having to pay for shops on the high street!, but spend lots having a warehouse full of people to process the returns. After all, people can't really try them on online can they? Boo.com was almost designed to fail - take a difficult thing to sell, then make it even harder to sell by making your website good looking but impossibly slow and cumbersome.
People rarely hear the but that goes with that yes. Programmers don't have a clarity of vision that the rest of the world lacks, but I bet the bloke who wrote Miss Boo was the bloke saying people are going to hate this the loudest.
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# 'He's a replicant.' -
I knew it!
OK, maybe I didn't when I first saw Blade Runner, but I did after I watched the Director's Cut.
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# I've got no idea of the veracity of this, but my chum Tony McGee mailed this out this morning.
Great news for girl watchers: Ogling over women's breasts is good for a
man's health and can add years to his life, medical experts have
discovered.
According to the New England Journal of Medicine, "Just 10 minutes of
staring at the charms of a well-endowed female is roughly equivalent to a
30-minute aerobics work-out" declared gerontologist Dr. Karen Weatherby.
Dr. Weatherby and fellow researchers at three hospitals in Frankfurt,
Germany, reached the startling conclusion after comparing the health of
200 male outpatients - half of whom were instructed to look at busty
females daily, the other half told to refrain from doing so.
The study revealed that after five years, the chest-watchers had lower
blood pressure, lower resting pulse rates and fewer instances of coronary
artery disease.
"Sexual excitement gets the heart pumping and improves blood circulation,"
explains Dr. Weatherby. "There's no question: Gazing at breasts makes men
healthier."
"Our study indicates that engaging in this activity a few minutes daily
cuts the risk of stroke and heart attack in half. We believe that by
doing so consistently, the average man can extend his life four to five
years."
[Update: Sadly, it turns out this is a hoax.]
anonymous said Aparently Sunday Mirror 11 Jun 2000
Can anyone dispute this? [added 17th Jul 2006]
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# Playing now ...
Daddy's doin' sister Sally,
Granma's dying o' cancer now,
The cattle all have brucellosis,
We'll get through somehow.
Sweet Home Alabama,
Play that dead man's song,
Turn them speakers up full blast,
Play it all night long
Play It All Night Long by Warren Zevon
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# Aha! If I ever encounter the stone-in-dog-arse nutter again, I've got a non-sequiter that it'll stop him cold -
Did you see the ruddy ducks?
There were a pair of them jetting about on the reservoir this morning, and they weren't there yesterday. I'm quite excited about seeing them, as they arn't
especially common. Although they're common enough to be a problem.
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