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Entries from November 2004

10 year old toast sells for $28,000

November 24th, 2004 · 1 Comment

The BBC has this story about a 10 year old cheese sandwich which is said to bear the image of the Virgin Mary and sold on ebay for $28,000
Now if only the wood on my bathroom had such an image instead of the face that is there. Then I could could sell the whole [...]

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Tags: News Bites

Really can’t think of a title!

November 24th, 2004 · Comments Off

Today has been a very productive day for me, it has not had the usual ‘Wednesday’ feeling, curse you in your grave Pollywog Blog for losing my rant about Wednesdays!
This week has defiantly been better than last week, I think my brain has been engaged more and I have kept clear of the self pitying [...]

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Tags: Real World

Lucky Dog

November 24th, 2004 · Comments Off

Well I guess I am lucky to be making this post instead of cowering in a corner having a breakdown. However the Lucky Dog I refer to is the Jack Russell type dog that decided it would run in front of my car this morning! Luckily for him or her I had already spotted [...]

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Tags: Real World

Lost in Translations

November 22nd, 2004 · Comments Off

Earlier while reading The New Well-tempered Sentence : A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager and the Doomed, as mentioned in my earlier post, some of the wonderful sentences used as examples reminded me of something but I couldn’t remember what.
Later I was looking at my newly organised books, I mean organised for me, [...]

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Tags: Hobbies · Poetry

Fire Alarms and Transitive Vampires

November 22nd, 2004 · 1 Comment

Today went well considering the last couple of Mondays have had me either so down or bored that I couldn’t have felt worse if I peeled my own skin off and weighed it. I managed to survive a freezing office due to the heating being off all weekend and two malicious fire alarms that [...]

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Tags: Geek · Hobbies · Real World · Writing