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logicaldevil Posted Feb 22, 2002
According to a recent government survey
sausages do not grow on trees 
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Gone again Posted Feb 22, 2002
No, but according to an old TV prank, spaghetti does.
Pattern-chaser
"Who cares, wins"
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beanfoto Posted Feb 26, 2002
There's a very small field at Manchester airport, surrounded by hotels and motorways which is full of rabbits at all times of the year.
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beanfoto Posted Feb 26, 2002
The first British trainee paratroopers flew from Manchester Airport ( which was then called Ringway.
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some bloke who tried to think of a short, catchy, pithy name and spent five sleepless nights trying but couldn't think of one Posted Feb 27, 2002
Some Australian military computer programmers did a flight simulation program, however for the kangaroos they reused code from the soldiers and changed the appearance. When they were demonstrating it to the brass they decided to "buzz" the kangaroos which caused the expected response of them hopping away...
Until they popped out from behind a hill and fired bazookas at the plane.
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The Theory Posted Feb 27, 2002
I'm trying to play a Zao song (heavy death metal) on my accustic guitar... ack.
peace.
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Feb 27, 2002
My chair is broken. I'm having it welded later today.
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Rama - now floating around the world on Her Majesty's Finest Posted Feb 27, 2002
My shoes are brown.
Rama
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Brother Maynard Posted Feb 27, 2002
Mr PP may have hung a picture on a wall, but unfortunately he's left his apostrophe on the floor
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Zantic - Who is this woman?? Posted Feb 27, 2002
I'm going home. The sun is not in it's bed yet.
What is wrong with this picture?
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Pink Paisley Posted Feb 27, 2002
It has been said that the "Preview Message" button is for wimps Brother Maynard.
PP
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some bloke who tried to think of a short, catchy, pithy name and spent five sleepless nights trying but couldn't think of one Posted Feb 28, 2002
My leg is broken.
Not really, but it is in a LOT of pain. I got hit in the shin with a cricket ball on the weekend.
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Feb 28, 2002
I hope the cricket ball got appropriate medical attention... 
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some bloke who tried to think of a short, catchy, pithy name and spent five sleepless nights trying but couldn't think of one Posted Mar 1, 2002
No. It continued being hit around (for another four deliveries, which is how much longer the innings lasted)
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Munchkin Posted Mar 1, 2002
My copy of the Moulin Rouge DVD is in the post. Hurrah!
Oh, and more useless, there was a 14th Century knight, Sir John Mandeville who claimed to have circumnavigated the world. He met giant cyclops' in Sumatra apparently.
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beanfoto Posted Mar 1, 2002
Wher did he find a pair of scissors big enough?
....Oh, circumnavigated!
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- 1342: logicaldevil (Feb 22, 2002)
- 1343: Gone again (Feb 22, 2002)
- 1344: Tonto BA (Hons) (Feb 22, 2002)
- 1345: beanfoto (Feb 26, 2002)
- 1346: beanfoto (Feb 26, 2002)
- 1347: some bloke who tried to think of a short, catchy, pithy name and spent five sleepless nights trying but couldn't think of one (Feb 27, 2002)
- 1348: The Theory (Feb 27, 2002)
- 1349: Tonto BA (Hons) (Feb 27, 2002)
- 1350: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Feb 27, 2002)
- 1351: Pink Paisley (Feb 27, 2002)
- 1352: Rama - now floating around the world on Her Majesty's Finest (Feb 27, 2002)
- 1353: Brother Maynard (Feb 27, 2002)
- 1354: Zantic - Who is this woman?? (Feb 27, 2002)
- 1355: Pink Paisley (Feb 27, 2002)
- 1356: some bloke who tried to think of a short, catchy, pithy name and spent five sleepless nights trying but couldn't think of one (Feb 28, 2002)
- 1357: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Feb 28, 2002)
- 1358: some bloke who tried to think of a short, catchy, pithy name and spent five sleepless nights trying but couldn't think of one (Mar 1, 2002)
- 1359: Munchkin (Mar 1, 2002)
- 1360: beanfoto (Mar 1, 2002)
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