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- $BlackadderJoke → So maybe that needs explaining. The standard form for a BlackadderJoke is: The Xiest Y since Z, where Z often involves X and Y. Example: Dell is the crappiest company since crappy Ted McCrapShite crapped himself playing craps on the crapper. But they’re not as bad as Sony.
- BBC categories → The BBC News Online website produces some amusing miscategorisations, e.g. Man bailed over top agent’s death was listed under entertainment, simply because the guy involved was an agent. The above example isn’t too bad really. Not compared to the Technology section. Any story involving computers in any way whatsoever gets filed under Technology. “Terrorists Personally Beat [...]
- Dell Inspiron 8000 long term review → As the warranty is due to run out soon, I thought I’d note down some review-like factoids that only tend to show up in long term tests: Good Things The screen. 1600×1200 and only 15″ wide means it’s very high resolution, in terms of dots per inch. This means you can jack up the font size and enjoy [...]
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- Pound World → There’s a shop in picadilly gardens called Pound World. Their tagline, embossed beneath the shop name at great expense, is “Where everything is pound”.
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- Michael Schumacher is the greatest environmentalist of all time → Michael Schumacher is like Tolkien: he perfected his art to such a degree that he killed his field. That is, of course, premature; F1 is still going, and fantasy books have rebounded in recent years, but F1 viewing figures are dropping steadily, and The Lord of the Rings was such a definitively perfect genre novel that [...]
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(0)France celebrates 60 years of peace - “Surface-to-air missiles have already been installed along the coastline.”
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