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PING: V and Mary
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Pastime says...
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That would be the iKia.
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How to recycle old Reel to Reel tapes?
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Post a message on Prison Plant and other conspiracy/paranoid nutjob sites, starting with,
"My grandma, Rose Mary Woods, passed away a few years ago and we're only now getting around to cleaning out her things. We found a bunch of old reel-to-reel tapes...."... more »
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The modern Rolls Royce
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It's the staff. The old archivist who fetches memories from the
brain's files isn't getting any younger. Sometimes he finds the
required memory has bits missing. Sometimes it hasn't, but he looked
in the wrong place, or the drawer is stuck and the handyman has... more »
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Parker's Piece lighting trial and consultation
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...Newsgroups: cam.misc
In article <2XLE3noLBkCRF...@perry.co.uk> ,
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Apparently it has to come in the form of a bollard, because Cambridge is the bollard capital of the western world by all appearances. Absolutely awful and visual pollution of the worst kind. One has to wonder if somewhere in the bowls of the council there is a bollard conspiracy and... more »
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OT It seems we are all Jewish.
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Fhowrpg: Er: BG Vg frrzf jr ner nyy Wrjvfu.... more »
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Middle Earth Economics
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I am also greatly concerned about the effects of large-scale unemployment in Mordor after the collapse of Sauron Inc. - it's all very well for those hobbits to go home and live happily ever after, but what about the w-ork-ers?
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End Of Eternity
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You're using linear thinking. Time loops don't NEED to have ever "started".
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Council recycling has seal of approval
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...Newsgroups: cam.misc
...I'm all in favour of recycling but the council have chosen a
bizarre way to talk about it:
"Just in Cambridge, we throw away over 200 tonnes of small
electrical appliances every year -- more than the weight of a
blue whale! At the moment, only 2% of this is recycled --... more »
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Moggie in a flap!..
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...Newsgroups: uk.d-i-y, cam.misc
On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 19:40:49 -0000, "ARW" <adamwadswo...@blueyonder.co.u k>
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The one that posts the CCTV videos to Youtube...
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PCC deputy appointments ...
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That just registered "bugger-all" on my Am I Surprised? scale.
I spy a new word: Cynicure = noun, a super-secure job that comes with a high salary, requires very little work without any meaningful corresponding responsibility, and which elicits tuts and groans of derision from the... more »
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