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It's like one of those foreign products that sounds like a rude word...
Posted Mar 5, 2004
Except it's in English.
Boswelox 
http://www.lorealparisusa.com/skincare/products/wrinkle-decrease/
They'll never be able to sell that stuff in the UK 
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My boss (but not for long) is on tv again
Posted Feb 29, 2004
I think he must have friends down at KXAN
http://www.kxan.com/Global/story.asp?S=1675550&nav=0s3cLA4z
The background to this story is that the stretch of Lamar where the store is situated is going to be completely remodelled and turned into something a bit more pedestrian friendly and resembling a boulevard - which is what it's called anyway.
So, ever since this work was announced, and following on from the fiasco a year or so back when they did the same thing to Barton Springs Road but made a complete bloody pig's ear of the work (the finished job is nice but it went over time and way over budget), he's been moaning about much money we're going to lose, even going so far as to say that our business is going to dip by 75% . He's basing that on the fact that all of the businesses on Barton Springs suffered (and some almost went bust) because the work was so badly planned and carried out.
Two things:
1) The businesses on Barton Springs are almost all restaurants, and in a town like Austin, restaurants are ten a penny. If you can't get to one, you go to another. On Lamar, the businesses are all shops, and shops which people use for a purpose, like our used CD store. If they can't get to us... there ain't anywhere else like us so they'll make the effort. We might lose a handful of sales.
2) Immediately after a train crash is the safest time to travel by train. Immediately after ballsing up the Barton Springs project so badly, the city is not going to repeat the mistakes with the Lamar project. This one will be done better.
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Point of grammar
Posted Feb 25, 2004
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3517319.stm
"For some astronomers, events reached a crescendo..."
Nothing *reaches* a crescendo. A crescendo is an increase in volume or intensity. 'Events reached a climax' would have been the correct usage.
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Latest reply: Feb 25, 2004
I know I've said this before but...
Posted Feb 24, 2004
It never fails to amaze me what turns up at the CD store where I work (but only for another four weeks). Ron Geesin, Rex the Runt, Vic Reeves, to name but a few (still waiting for the day when someone sells us a Lol Coxhill title 
).
This time it's a CD called Anthropology by The Bonzo Dog Band 
It's a collection of songs from rehearsals and demos, including a few I've not heard before. For me, Viv Stanshall's death was one of those JFK moments - you remember where you where when you heard about it (I was getting ready to go out to work and deliver magazines through the night).
Thankfully, I managed to see him perform a few years earlier with a couple of ex-Bonzos (Roger Ruskin-Spear and... Rodney Slater I think). I don't recall too much about it, just that they performed a few old Bonzo songs and Viv recited a few 'Sir Henry' scenes, but I'm glad I went.
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Latest reply: Feb 24, 2004
Ralph bloody Nader
Posted Feb 23, 2004
Too annoyed right now to comment coherently and with restraint on the news that the man who handed Bush the election on a plate will be running again this year in the Presidential election 
Is he 
ing working for the Republicans?
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