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Only in Texas
Posted Nov 6, 2003
You know how when you think you've seen everything... and then you haven't cos you see something that makes your jaw drop or your eyes pop out on stalks?
I was standing at the bus stop after work on... Sunday I think, and I saw it. A stretch pickup 
It looked for all the world like a stretch limo - white paint job, tinted glass, boomerang tv aerial on the roof, except it was a pickup with the open loading space on the back 
A redneck's dream car 
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An accident? A coincidence?
Posted Nov 3, 2003
Mrs Gosho and I watched The Matrix Reloaded last night. For my part I thought that it was almost as good as the first Matrix film, although there was a certain amount of content which I thought superfluous and unnecessary, like the dancing scene in Zion.
However, one scene in particular which caught my attention was when Neo was in the room with The Architect. It's the bit where The Architect is describing how perfect the 1st Matrix was and how it came crashing down as a result of the imperfection inherent in each human being.
The screens around the room begin to show various images of evil such as Hitler, and an atomic explosion. At the point where The Architect mouths the words "...the grotesqueries of human nature", the faces of both George Bushes (Daddy Bush and Dubya) can clearly be seen.
Fascinating.
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Halloween
Posted Nov 1, 2003
I just don't get it 
I don't get all the fuss and hoo-hah.
When I was a young Gosho growing up in the 1960s, Halloween was known by us kids to be something to do with ghosts and witches, and there were certain traditions around it, like being able to see your true love if you held a candle and looked into a mirror on this night. We also heard that American kids did this thing called trick or treat, but I don't believe anyone ever thought of giving it a bash.
It's a multi-million dollar industry here. More than that in fact - I heard a figure not long ago of $2 billion a year. I wonder how that sits with George Dubya? On the one hand he's a devout Christian, a scion of the Texan Christian right wing. On the other though, he's all for unfettered business. He must be hopping from one foot to the other like Homer Simpson, trying to work out which he worships most - God or a $2,000,000,000 a year industry, and which he could least do without 
And I wonder what kind of useful things (like hospitals and schools) $2 billion would buy.
It's time for the marketers to think up some new cliches - the old ones are really pretty tired now. 'Halloween Headquarters', 'Shocktober', 'spooktacular'... come on guys, it can't be that difficult (and I've lost count of the number of times I've heard the soundtrack from 'Psycho today).
For many, it's not even anything to do with ghosts and the occult any more, it's just an excuse to dress up in costume. Mrs Gosho and some friends have gone to 6th Street tonight. She's dressed as a schoolgirl
Me? I'm staying in tonight. I've read a few more chapters of THHGTTG (thanks broe 
), I've had a relaxing bath (I wish we had a smiley), a glass of Knob Creek, and I'm going to bed soon because I have to get up at 6.30am to open the store. I only live four miles away from it, but since the buses on Saturday and Sunday morning run only once an hour, I've got two choices - 45 minutes early or 15 minutes late, and since the latter of those two won't leave me enough time to count the money and complete the morning reconciliation before opening up, I have to leave here at about 7.20 in order to punch in at 8.30, but my actual bus journey is only 10 minutes
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That bloke's a nutter!
Posted Oct 30, 2003
Oi... nutter!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3224745.stm
Another occasional series from Gosho, this time highlighting the pointless things people do (not quite the same as 'What were you thinking?')
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Result!!!
Posted Oct 26, 2003
Gosho's journal thread for stories and reports which highlight a victory for common sense and/or for the common people (and which, no doubt, will consequently contain many stories and reports about victories over big business and large corporations).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3213161.stm
This may not be too long-lived however - Congress is currently debating an anti-spam bill which is weaker than California's and which will supersede state laws 
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