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“Crossword Wigglesworth”
To the person in the Dept of Labor in Washington DC, who got to this site with the search term “crossword wigglesworth”:
It’s probably too late now – you’ve either completed the crossword or thrown it away in disgust – but the cryptic crossword answer you were looking for is “Air Commodore Cecil George Wigglesworth”.
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Fragment
Hauling into Haslingden,
Kicking sixty over The Grane,
I’m singing along to the radio,
He’s explaining what’s in the frame.
Sheep like rocks on the hillside,
The last leaves still turning flame,
A flock of pigeons beat the sky -
“Oh look!” -
A kestrel hangs against the sun
The world entire in its eye.
The road swings round
To show the bodies [...]
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Googlebomb: Popup Blockers
If you are getting here through a search on Popup Blockers or for Pop-Up Blocker or Pop Up Blocker Internet Explorer, please do not buy from pop-upblocker dot org They are spammers and unethical. ADB Popup Blocker and ANB Pop Up Blocker are from the same company and you should not buy their product. Any [...]
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Prophecies
You know, I always avoid prophesying beforehand. It is much better policy to prophesy after the event has taken place. – Winston Churchill
And wouldn’t you know it, here come all the post-bombing “predictions”. All the “I posted on such-and-such that the UK would face a terrorist attack/disaster/massacre/emergency/news event this year!” idiots are [...]
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Aaaarrrgghhh……
………….I wish I could scream. I am really really fed up with this computer and my internet connection!
This morning, it took over thirty minutes to get a stable connection – and it’s still been slow as hell since. Like wading through molasses. No exaggeration, but every page takes minutes to load. This [...]
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About Yesterday….
Today, this was posted on an elist I belong to:
What is with all the drivel?
Most of us that are here in the UK take it in our stride and get on
with our lives.
We are fed up of the media stretching disasters into a week long
filling of a TV channel because they have nothing better to [...]
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Granny Made Me An Anarchist
Granny Made Me An Anarchist by Stuart Christie.
Stuart Christie is probably a completely unknown name for anyone under fifty (in fact, he’s probably equally unknown to most over-fifties too); he was deeply involved in anarchist politics and activism in Britain, Scotland and Europe in the 60s and 70s. His main claim to fame is [...]
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