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Open Thread!

November 15, 2011
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The staff are busy again behind the scenes doing stuff which means that we can’t serve you at the bar. Help yourself to the drinks, but please leave some cash on the bar. In the meantime please talk amongst yourselves. Say anything, write short stories, post a poem or two, repeat some Internet meme, share [...]

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In the pub cellar

September 23, 2011
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We’ve been a bit busy in the pub cellar sorting out all the beer barrels so please talk amongst yourselves for a while. Normal service will be resumed soon. Talk about the weather, politics, sex, religion, state of the economy, or whatever comes to mind. Photo by mezzoblue

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I know your password

July 5, 2011
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Odds are that I can guess your PIN in ten attempts. It will be one of the following “1234” – I can’t be bothered to think about my password “0000” – I can’t even be bothered to count “2580” – I can go down the key pad “1111” – I can count to one! “5555” [...]

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Very Short Parish Notice

June 21, 2011

For the next couple of weeks SadButMadLad and me will be handling some of the site admin, working with the other contributors. Roughly, SadButMadLad is handling site admin issues, and I’m dealing with planning content, Guest Posts and background email queries. There may also be a couple of small changes happening in the site design. [...]

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Covert Recording accepted in Evidence by Appeal Court

June 20, 2011

Have you secretly recorded your neighbour stating that your cat might suddenly vanish into the great mousehole in the sky, but they deny it? The Appeal Court accepted a covert recording made in the course of a neighbour dispute into evidence for a case, and has relied on those recordings as evidence when making a [...]

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Saturday evening facts

May 7, 2011
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Abbottabad was named after an Englishman, British Army officer General Sir James Abbott Hookworms, a cure for asthma? Warmenist is a proper word. Everything is 3d now-a-days, including microchips. Osama Bin Laden liked to watch himself on TV.  

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30,000

May 5, 2011
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A minor milestone was passed recently. This blog has just had its 30,000 comment. In the 2 and bit years that this blog has been going since its first post in 2009 there have been many hundreds of you commentators who have added to the richness of this blog with your insight, criticisms, and occasionally [...]

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