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Monday, July 1st, 2002 at
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Date
20020701
Time
09:44
Well, the bathroom carpet is a goner. After a projectile vomiting performance that would put Linda Blair to shame, our youngest son became the fifth and final member of our family to succumb to a rotten summer bug that’s been doing the rounds.
It’s only a 24-hour jobbie, but do watch out for it. It knocks you on your arse with little or no warning and causes no end of problems at both ends of your body.
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Date
20020701
Time
09:50
A man who robbed a convenience store in the US used shaving cream to disguise his face. Unsurprisingly, it dripped off in the heat of the moment and he was recognised instantly by the store owner (as said genius only lives a few doors down from the store). The robber has now pleaded guilty to second-degree assault, risk of injury to a minor, unlawful restraint and – presumably – stupidity.
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Date
20020701
Time
10:03
I really should have blogged this last Wednesday, but I was too busy throwing up. Given the intense blog and media interest over the last few days, you’ve probably already seen most of the contents of Matthew McClintock’s house, but maybe you haven’t seen this Wired article that covers the subject nicely without you having to poke through the house like a nosy relative on the sniff for possible contents of a future will.
BTW, I did a search or three, but the database shows no record of cockroaches, vermin or even the occasional dust mite in the house. And he calls himself a perfectionist…
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Date
20020701
Big Brother 3
Time
13:08
It’s not like the world needs another Jade/Pig JPEG, but when I gets an idea in me head…
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Date
20020701
Time
14:11
Hurrah! I just won me a copy of McBain on ebay!
(For those who missed it, I’ve been looking around for a copy of this since I saw this other great movie by the same director.)
I’ll probably get my hands on it by the end of the week. Keep an eye out for the review!
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Date
20020701
Time
14:38
Images of things humping other things. That’s the web for you – fun and educational.
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Date
20020701
Time
15:06
Letters. You gotta write ’em to get ’em, and I’ve got a great list of names and addresses to get you started.
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Date
20020701
Flash Games
Time
15:20
Battleships, anyone?
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Date
20020701
Time
16:35
Florida police produce four more R. Kelly sex tapes.
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Date
20020701
Time
16:55
Boom box,
On my shoulder,
Funk atomic bomb swoop down from Ame-ri-ca.
(I’d say ‘look it up’, but there’s no point. I can’t find a trace of these lyrics, or even any mention of this song online. Perhaps I dreamed it.)
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Date
20020701
Time
17:21
A man was arrested last Wednesday for putting a Rottweiler puppy in a microwave. Said Sgt. Bob Rapien: “He microwaved it for 10 to 15 seconds until it yelped. Then he took it out, stabbed it and put it back in.”
Of course he did. He didn’t want it to explode. Duh.
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Date
20020702
Time
09:37
From the FAQ of lickmyjesus.com:
Q: I’m Jewish. Can I still enjoy Lick My Jesus?
A: That’s a silly question. Of course not.
That says it all, really. Visit today.
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Date
20020702
Time
09:39
Read about this cab ride from hell, where the passengers ‘cowered in the back seat’ as the driver hooned through the streets at 90mph – whilst sharing a few beers with his mate in the front.
I once had to get from Kogarah to Kings Cross – and fast – when my I found out my record collection was in the hands of a DJ that I didn’t entirely trust.
“There’s 50 bucks in it for you if you get me there fast”, I said, slamming the door behind me. I was thrown into the seat by extreme G-forces and afraid to speak for fear of distracting the driver in the millisecond or two that stood between us and oblivion. We ran just about every light on the way there and set a new record for low-level flying on the motorway. The trip normally took about 30 mins. We made it in 10. The tip was offered with trembling hands and gratefully accepted.
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Date
20020702
Time
09:52
Enjoy Wolfenstein crammed into 5K of JavaScript.
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Date
20020702
Big Brother 3
Time
09:54
I was after a picture of the Big Brother house for the background of this Photoshop, so asked in uk.media.tv.misc:
“Where can I get some nice images of the Big Brother house?”
Came the reply from Mike Plowman:
“After Jade has left?”
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Date
20020702
Time
11:55
Woman arrested in US after attempting to take boomerangs on plane. Insert joke here.
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Date
20020702
Yet Another Lame Quiz
Time
12:49
Which Big Brother Spaz Are You?
Worth doing a few times with different answers, as the results are very entertaining.
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Date
20020702
Time
13:25
This is a fun read for all sorts of reasons. And no, you don’t have to be into SEO or even dotcoms in general to enjoy the sheer madness of it all. Now, where’s that unfinished movie script I had lying around?
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Date
20020703
Time
08:43
There will be little or no bloggage today, as it’s my 9th wedding anniversary and my lovely wife is jealous enough of the computer as it is. I would, however, like to take the time to say…
Hm. How can I say this without making you want to vomit copiously?
Oh, what the hell, I’ll just say it.
I’ve known Kate for well over a decade, but I still get heart palpitations every time she smiles at me. She’s been most excellent value over the years, offering me all kinds of support at every stage of my personal and professional life. She’s stuck by me at my lowest points and helped me to achieve all sorts of highs. We wouldn’t be human if we didn’t argue, but she remains, after all this time, the best friend I ever had. That, and I love her more than words can describe.
I may make glib remarks from time to time, but the fact remains that she’s the best partner I could have hoped for in every sense of the word.
Right, that’s it. Nothing more to see here. Move along.
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Date
20020704
Time
09:27
There’s nothing wrong with a little healthy scepticism, but Laurel Wellman’s half-baked opinion piece makes Emma Jones look like a seasoned journalist.
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Date
20020704
Everybody Sing!
Time
09:34
So remember, when you’re feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth;
And pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere out in space,
‘Cause there’s bugger all down here on Earth!
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Date
20020704
Time
09:41
“When Menya was diagnosed with cancer, we decided we needed something to take it out on. So we chose a troll doll.”
Disturbing.
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Date
20020704
Time
09:44
So if she can’t find her keys, does she blame Alzheimer’s or short-term memory loss? Read about the 73-year-old widow busted for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. I’d love to visit this woman’s house, just to see if she has a crocheted doily for her bong.
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Date
20020704
Time
13:42
A theatre producer has denied decapitating the Thatcher statue. There has also been surprisingly little speculation over the head developing what appears to be a Hitleresque moustache upon hitting the ground.
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Date
20020704
Lego
Time
14:44
Coolest. Mouse. Ever.
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Date
20020704
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Date
20020705
Time
07:46
Hardly surprising that the Guardian’s link-love exercise is topping both Blogdex and Daypop.
They did neglect to list me, though. Still, nobody’s perfect.
(Oh, some of the blog buzz has reached The Economist as well.)
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Date
20020705
Time
07:53
I’ll be very surprised if B3ta don’t pick this up and run with it:
Palestinian bomb cat picture shocks civilised world.
If this were 1998, we’d be sure to see a piece or two on dancing baby bombers. Be thankful that it’s not.
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Date
20020705
Time
08:02
The 600,000 residents of the District of Columbia, denied their democratic rights but still forced to pay taxes, presented a Declaration of Reunification to the British embassy in Washington yesterday. In a disappointing twist, it turns out that they’re just ‘kidding’. Wimps.
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Date
20020705
Time
08:09
Oops, bit ‘o’ politics there.
George Michael comes over all Ben Elton.
Oops, bit of innuendo there.
Etc.
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Date
20020705
Time
08:18
Wailing wall weeps. The end is coming, we’re all going to die, yadda, yadda, yadda.
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Date
20020705
One For Adam
Time
09:32
Kind of inevitable, really:
www.blog.meetup.com
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Date
20020705
Time
11:39
Equetta.com claims to “lead (their) customers through the challenges of creating an Internet presence for both the present and the future”. The main site (created by “Web Engineer’s (sic) Faraz Akhtar & Talha Ejaz”) is dead classy, but what impresses me the most is this page. Study it carefully, because the writing really is quite excellent. I should know, because I fucking wrote it. They stole my bloody images, too. Except for the one where the ferret is leaping out of Winona Ryder’s cleavage. Perhaps this was too extreme for their tender sensibilities.
The ‘© Copyright 2001-2002 E-Dev’ notice at the bottom of this shameless cut and paste is the final insult.
*sigh*
Why do people think they can rip off my content, publish it on the web and get away with it? Is it stupidity or arrogance?
I’m tempted to write a strong letter, but I thought in this case it might be more fun to flip it around and have a few of you guys email them and helpfully inform them that I’ve ripped of ‘their’ content. Make sure you tell them how outraged you are, and that they should demand that I take the offending page down immediately.
Who knows, we may even have a reader in Pakistan who would care to give them a call. They can be reached at 92-081-826007, 92-081-827007 and 92-0320-4785395.
UPDATE – Thanks go to Paul who dropped them a line with the message:
“Be Original Please!!!..
Do not steal off other sites!.”
Not quite what I was after, but the effect was great. The reply appears in full below:
Hello!
Dear Paul We would certaily like to know what have we stolen?
If you are thinking abt the flash intro. ya in that sense you are right but it is under construction and u will totally c a new flash intor. but if there is anything beside that then plz… do let us know
with regrads from
Talha Ejaz
Webmaster: www.equetta.com
So basically they deny knowledge of any wrongdoing – but in doing so manage to grass themselves up by suggesting that this glorious flash intro might not be entirely their own work. Oops.
Heh. I love it. We may just have another Matt Vartan on our hands.
The graphic at the top of the flash intro page looks to be a bit suspect, for a start. I don’t know which site the original image comes from, but think I spy the bottom of a ‘J’ poking out from under the ‘equetta.com’ logo that they’ve plonked on top of it.
Does anybody recognise this? Or even what make of phone it is?
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Date
20020705
Time
13:54
A quick link for lunch.
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Date
20020705
Time
15:17
I was interviewed yesterday by Adam, a social anthropologist working at the University of Surrey who’s taking a closer look at the whole blogging thing (more details regarding this project can be found at Adam’s blog, funnily enough).
If you’re a blogger in or around the London area, I would urge you to check it out and get in touch. He’s a nice chap, and thoughtful enough to warm the spoon up before using it to dig around inside your skull.
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Date
20020705
Yet Another Lame Quiz
Time
15:33
This gets blogged primarily because I’m a closet Neil Gaiman fan:
Which Member of the Endless Are You?
I’m Death, BTW.
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Date
20020705
Time
15:50
A brief history of the Internet. Finally, a version that makes sense.
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Date
20020705
Time
15:58
The Universal Church of the Interactive Network has another believer. Praise be!
(Hm, I should probably get around to putting together a list of all believers, disciples, etc. one day. But not today.)
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Date
20020705
Equetta.com
Time
16:30
Do you recognise this graphic?
If so, let me know. There are more details in the longer entry below.
(Heh. Poetry and justice. This is fun.)
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Date
20020706
Equetta.com
Time
18:12
The offending page at equetta.com now carries the following message:
“Thsi article Has benn taken from: http://www.birdofprey.co.uk/cbfront.htm”
Amusing, but nowhere near good enough.
(Thanks to Giorgia for the heads-up.)
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Date
20020707
Time
15:52
Supplies!
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Date
20020708
Time
10:06
The Sun showed their true colours on Saturday. Instead of exercising any restraint in their over the top ‘Get The Pig Out’ campaign, they instead reacted to the widespread criticism by diggin up dirt on Jade – who was a school bully. All together now: Oooooh!
Truly the face of evil is she. Has anyone excavated her cellar recently?
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Date
20020708
Time
10:11
Enjoy elgooG.
Amusing. Even more amusing to note that Google already thought of it. Kind of.
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Date
20020708
Time
10:16
Uh-oh. By speaking the name of Google backwards, we have invoked the devil.
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Date
20020708
Time
10:25
Get married online. It’s not legally binding, but she doesn’t have to know that…
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Date
20020708
Time
14:13
Woman depressed about getting free sample of Prozac in the mail.
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Date
20020709
Great Rip-Offs Of The World
Time
09:49
Prisoners awaiting execution in Florida aren’t allowed to order a last meal that costs more than $20. The drugs that make up their lethal injection cost $86.08.
They’re more generous with last meals in Texas, but they probably get some kind of bulk discount, don’tcha think?
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Date
20020709
Time
10:43
Is it just me, or are Billie Piper and Jade Goody starting to look very, very similar?
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Date
20020709
Time
11:38
I know the occassional pubic hair is to be expected in a public urinal, but how does one get to above shoulder-height? It worries me, that does.
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Date
20020709
Time
13:33
David Hasselhoff has checked himself into The Betty Ford Center. So it’s not just a feeling he’s hooked on, then. (Second link is a fair-sized video stream, but worth seeing if you missed this bloggage from May 8th.)
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Date
20020709
Big Brother 3
Time
14:54
Jade gets naked, screams “My kebab’s showing!”
Oh, sorry. Were you eating lunch?
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Date
20020710
Time
09:45
Blogchalking.tk is yet another attempt to use blogs to influence Google and/or to create some kind of cultural movement. Unfortunately, the instigator in this case isn’t very proficient in SEO. Or the English language.
Quotes:
“Well, since a long time ago, I miss in Blogger a region-sensible blog-search engine, what would make easier for me to know blogs owned by people that live near my home, and then, increase the possibility of real meetings. What would probably end in new and great friendships.”
“Yesterday, I found something I couldn’t predict. Google and others famous search engines are not using META tags as they meant to be anymore.”
While not all of the links are favourable in their descriptions, a top listing in both Blogdex and Daypop is certainly nothing to sneeze at. Is he being deliberately disingenuous as some kind of double-bluff?
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Date
20020710
Time
09:54
Ebay buys Paypal. Hmm, now might be the time to bring about that micropayment thingy.
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Date
20020710
Time
09:56
Invest in the future.
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Date
20020710
Time
09:59
Martha Stewart Facing Wider Probe. Sounds like a disturbing wet dream to me.
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Date
20020710
Time
10:00
“Huh. Didn’t know I was that widely read.”
You are now, Janis.
Janis Ian on the MP3 debate.
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Date
20020710
Time
10:05
Scrollbar Racing. The most exciting ten seconds you’ll spend all day.
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Date
20020710
Time
11:39
Am I really that bad?
(Thanks to Craig for the heads up!)
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Date
20020710
Time
12:42
Dolly Parton’s next album is to include her version of ‘Stairway To Heaven’. And here was you thinking that this was the final insult. If you’re already grinding your teeth, then you might want to pop your bit in for this next part… she’s taken the liberty of rewriting the final section.
Says Dolly:
“Toward the end (of the song) I added a choir. I always thought of this particular song as more of a gospel song, like somebody trying to buy their way into heaven. And I threw in a few little ad-libbed lines to make it more like it was.”
Mission accomplished. The words ‘Dear’ and ‘God’ spring to mind immediately.
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Date
20020710
Time
13:39
Sony have a few words in reply to Michael Jackson. Not minced very finely, either.
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Date
20020710
Time
13:57
Dude, where’s my toddler?
Drunk father leaves 4-year-old strapped in car for 15 hours (15 hours!) because he forgot the make – and location – of his car.
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Date
20020710
Time
14:08
The Register reports that a site that lampooned the activities of local parking officers was taken down after Freeserve caved in (really?) after the first complaint by local authorities. The site owner has sinced moved to a new location, and is now juggling the attention of local police with that of national newspapers, I’m sure.
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Date
20020710
Time
15:06
Heh. I’m a sucker for anything that includes Star Wars and Lego.
(Another great find from The Ultimate Insult.)
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Date
20020710
Time
15:48
A hint for those of you who run guestbooks on your site:- read the entries carefully and edit/censor where necessary! Take a look at Christian homeschooler’s guestbook for an example of typical abuse. The post you’ll want to focus on seems to be an endless run of stars – but just mouse over a star or two to see what’s really going on.
Oi! I said ‘mouse over’, not ‘click on’! Naughty, naughty, naughty…
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Date
20020710
Worth Repeating
Time
16:31
John Lydon to Dominic Mohan:
“You are a soullless, heartless cardsharp and you know I know it. I don’t like you, you stink, everything about you is appalling. Go away.”
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Date
20020710
Time
17:16
Meet the new Spider-man, complete with his own sticky web fluid.
(NSFW)
(A big hello to Icklesheep, who’s welcome to poke his nose in with links like this anytime. Good to hear from you again, Ickle!)
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Date
20020711
Emma Jones
Time
10:10
Another hard-hitting piece by Emma Jones, bless her heart. Today she criticises the exploitation of lap-dancers, stating that: “Lap-dancing is little more than an acceptable face of prostitution.”
She goes on to assert that: “if the girls aren’t on the game when they get into it, they are often coerced into it.”
Of course, not all lap-dancers go on to become prostitutes, but then not all Page 3 girls go on to do hardcore pornography.
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Date
20020711
Latest Viral Agents
Time
10:30
I don’t get it. How is this Sport relief thingy supposed to be in any way viral – or even slightly amusing for that matter? It seems to me that this offering relies almost completely on a web user’s wish to support this offshoot of Comic Relief. A good viral mechanism would have enhanced this wish, not relied upon it.
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Date
20020711
Time
11:13
Is Terry Fuckwitt in charge of the Viz site today? I ask because all trace the site has been removed from the server, and I was looking for a good Spoilt Bastard link to team up with this story about the 8-year-old who’s still breast-feeding.
UPDATE – Amazing what old technology can do. I just used the ancient method of telephonic conversation to establish that the new URL for Viz magazine is http://www.vizmag.co.uk/
Will they accept my kind offer of help in making sure that this changeover becomes immediately apparent in search engines? I’d like to think so.
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Date
20020711
Time
11:57
It has come to my attention that the No.1 single in the UK when I was born was ‘Two Little Boys’ by Rolf Harris. I’m awfully sorry about that, even though it’s not my fault.
Hell, it’s not even Rolf’s.
From the FAQ of the Poetry and Music of the War Between the States site:
By the way, the poem “Two Little Boys” is NOT a period piece. It was popularized by Australian entertainer Rolf Harris, who first heard it from Canberra native Ted Egan in the late 1960s. According to The Rolf Harris Pages at http://www.rich.durge.org/rolf/, “In 1969, during a tour of Arnhem Land with his wife and daughter, Rolf briefly stayed with a man called Ted Egan. Ted sung him this song, which Rolf recorded on tape. When he got back to England and talked his television producer into using the song, Rolf discovered he had lost the tape! Rolf rang Ted, twelve thousand miles away in Canberra, and got him to sing the song over the phone. Alan Braden arranged the song for the TV show, and the audience reaction was so marvellous that Rolf decided to record it. This song was top of the hit parade for seven weeks over Christmas 1969.” Egan is thus presumed to be the author of the song, which may (or may not) have been written to honor the memory of his father and his uncle, Australian soldiers who fought in the Great War [1914-1918]. If nothing else, its apparent Australian roots indicate that it did not originate during and was not written about the War Between the States.
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Date
20020711
Time
12:09
The Popbitch board has just gone completely apeshit, with ‘last year’s messages appearing, approvals gone wonky, passwords being misused’, etc. etc.
Me, I suspect Emma Jones – possibly in league with the Lone Gunmen. Compared to some of the comments about her this morning, mine (below) are rather tame. She certainly has the motivation…
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Date
20020711
Time
13:23
Woo-hoo! I’m result #876 in Google for the search term ‘religion’.
(Heh. I didn’t say this was going to be easy, did I?)
Help us on our long, uphill climb by joining my religion today. The future of mankind is at stake!
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Date
20020711
Flash Music ‘Video’
Time
14:43
A nice ‘misheard lyrics’ take on God Save The Queen (from Mothra, presumably).
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Date
20020711
Hello Lovely Lycos Visitors
Time
15:02
Hello to all of you who found this site today via the URL on this Jade pic at the Lycos Viral Chart.
Looking at my stats now, I can also see quite a few bods who’ve actually been curious enough to search for ‘bloggerheads’ in Google (UK) and pop along for a look-see. Again, hello.
1. If it’s more images you’re after, I’d suggest poking around in my photoshopping collection. If you’re short on time or bandwidth, then just check out this one, which is my personal favourite.
2. If it’s Big Brother you’re into, I’ve only got this for you. Sorry.
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Date
20020711
Time
16:38
Ooh, lookie – a whole page of League of Gentlemen sound files.
This one still cracks me up.
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Date
20020711
Time
17:06
The world’s best board game. If you live in a trailer park, sleep with your father, fancy your sister, and have the upper body strength necessary to hurl a few chairs around.
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Date
20020712
Time
07:57
I knew my destiny was almost upon me, and yesterday it arrived in the form of a letter.
Ladies and gentlemen, last night I received my ‘confirmation of pre-selection to apply’ from
Crapital One. Yes, that’s right – my CONFIRMATION (of pre-selection to apply).
You losers can keep blogging and surfing if you like, but me, I’m busy moving up in the world.
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Date
20020712
Equetta.com
Time
08:15
There’s definitely something very stange about these guys. I finally brought the hammer down yesterday and demanded that they remove the stuff they nicked from me. They’ve done so – but have left the offending page in place, almost completely blank, with the exception of the one graphic they did create, now sitting there all on its lonesome. Weird.
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Date
20020712
Time
09:38
The amateur cameraman who videotaped the latest LA police beating (sorry, best make that ‘alleged beating’) has been taken into custody on outstanding warrants. Fuel. Fire.
This is the bit where we all stand around in a circle, chanting: “Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!”
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Date
20020712
Signs Of The Times
Time
09:42
Sesame Street is set to introduce its first HIV-positive Muppet character. And no, it’s not Bert or Ernie.
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Date
20020712
Time
12:57
Cool. I made the weblog list at the Guardian. I didn’t rate a blurb, though. Great. So now I’m blurbless. And this started out as such a positive post…
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Date
20020712
Big Brother 3
Time
17:27
Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha (*pause for breath*) Ahahahahahahahaha.
Really quite excellent.
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Date
20020712
Time
19:41
As Homer’s brother Herb is fond of saying: All a man needs is an idea.
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Date
20020713
I Got The Number Of The Beast At The Bottle Tombola
Time
18:05
I know, it sounds like a bad Jim Steinman song – but at a local village fair, I dropped by the bottle tombola to try my luck with 5 tickets.
I managed to pull out ticket #666 not once, but twice.
Impressive.
Sinister.
Erm, and a pretty good indication that the chances of picking a prize may not necessarily have been 1 in 5, if you know what I mean.
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Date
20020713
Time
18:10
Three domain name scams to look out for, courtesy of The Register.
This other one isn’t quite a scam, but it is pretty pathetic. “Get a listing in Yahoo! for only $15!” goes the blurb.
According to the very pretty spam that alerted me to this work of marketing genius, you can “make your site ‘Findable’ within 24 Hours – Guaranteed!”
Erm, by buying an expired domain that the overly lethargic Yahoo! has yet to drop from its database.
I’ve got dibs on www.santasaurus.com, so if you’re thinking about snapping it up, you can un-think it right now!
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Date
20020715
Time
10:01
How computer viruses are named. I’m still waiting for one called ‘Little Bastard’.
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Date
20020715
Time
10:03
The lowest known fatal dose of caffeine was 3,200 mg (this was administered intravenously by accident). The fatal oral dose has been estimated to be in excess of 4-5,000 mg – the equivalent of 40 strong cups of coffee. Me, I tend to take such estimates at face value, but this guy decided to see if it were true. If, of course, he is to be believed at all…
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Date
20020715
Time
10:12
A United Methodist Church minister has been removed from the pulpit after telling his congregation that he had downloaded and looked at pornography. His name, by the way, is Randy Sailors.
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Date
20020715
Time
10:19
Itchy Richie needs the help of you and your keyboard. My advice to you is to visit only to help him abstain. If he keeps scratching at your command, whatever is causing the discomfort in his shorts is only going to become more red, inflamed and painful.
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Date
20020715
Time
10:24
Hollywood gets tough by bullying ISPs.
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Date
20020715
Time
10:25
Are Mac users smarter?
I don’t know, I didn’t understand the article.
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Date
20020715
Time
10:29
Another gem from Icklesheep:
What does BLOGS stand for?
Why, the Bisexual, Lesbian, Gay or Transgender Society, of course. ‘Transgender’ was added to the name of the society after it was formed – in 1973!
We may have to come up with a new word if they decide to take action…
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Date
20020715
Equetta.com
Time
12:13
In what I’m hoping will be the final instalment in this sad, short and sorry saga, a reply has finally come through from equetta.com in response to my question:
“Why did you think it was OK to steal my text and images?”
The answer they gave was as follows:
“We copied your text coz.. we thought it was some sort of news and can be published on the web for free as news so every one can benefit from it but it was’nt the case here anyway.”
1. Oh, I didn’t realise it was OK to steal news. Live and learn, I suppose.
2. Hang on… did they really think that this was a genuine news article?
Bloody hell…
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Date
20020715
Time
13:51
How to keepyoursecrets.com
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Date
20020715
Latest Viral Agent
Time
14:06
I must admit to stilfing at least a dozen yawns when viewing this promotional vehicle for Telewest. Why am I blogging it, then?
Well, tucked away behind it is a blatant Hot Or Not rip-off that’s funny for all the wrong reasons.
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Date
20020715
Time
16:16
They should call it Photoshop Lite and be done with it.
“We’re taking the core of the Photoshop engine and redesigning some of the features to make them easier to use and make the core functions more accessible,” says Adobe.
Apparently, it makes it easy for users to remove things like red-eye – but will it then let you cut off the head and put it onto the body of a kitten? If so, they’re onto a winner.
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Date
20020715
Time
17:25
According to a recent poll, this is the greatest Fark thread of all time.
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Date
20020715
Time
17:29
OK, everybody – out of the pool!
Dow slips below 8,500, US dollar being outperformed by the Euro.
