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Nooooooooooooooooooo!!!
Posted Jan 21, 2003
The same presenter who just told me about the squirrels is now playing Two Little Boys 
If there were two songs I came here to get away from, it's that one, and "Grandad, Grandad, we love you"
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Varmints and critters
Posted Jan 21, 2003
I just heard on the radio that today is 'Squirrel Appreciation Day'.
Apart from planting a few acorns, WTF have squirrels ever done that I should appreciater them, other than being one of Mother Nature's creatures? W(ho)TF ever dreamt that one one up? And WTF was he on at the time?
As soon as Dewey comes back in, I'm gonna tell him to get back out there and 'appreciate' a few squirrels 
And it seems that we have another problem with racoons. This time there's one which keeps getting into the space between our ceiling and the floor of the apartment upstairs.
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Christmas Day 2002
Posted Dec 26, 2002
Only just - it's 11.57pm Central Standard Time. It is 2002 isn't it?
If you thought that British Christmas Day tv was bad, spare a thought for what Americans have to put up with - on TLC a 'Trading Spaces' marathon; on Comedy Central a 'Saturday Night Live' marathon; on TechTV a 'Thunderbirds' marathon (didn't mind that one too much actually 
); on TNT the final half of a 24-hour 'A Christmas Story' marathon (certainly didn't mind that one 
); and even BBC America got in on the act with a 'Coupling' marathon.
12.02 - only 364 shopping days till Christmas 
And I think that that demented bollockbrain in Washington is going to plunge us all into war. Why would anybody - especially someone who considers himself to be a Christian, do something that's going earn him the reputation of 'warmonger' in the annals of history?
There's talk of another Tom Waits album in the coming year (possibly two), but alas, no tour 
Who knows though, he may surprise us all the way he did last time
Dewey caught and killed a bird today 
It looked a lot like a 
, but I didn't think they had them here in Texas. They don't fly south for the winter do they?
It's well over three years since I stepped on the soil of Great Britain, and I feel a need to do so again. I feel the need to do a whole bunch of things I haven't done since I've been here. I need to sit in a pub and get my laughing gear around a decent pint. I need to see the sun going down at 10pm during the summer. I need to watch The Festival of Remembrance from the Royal Albert Hall (They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun, and in the morning... we will remember them.) I need to listen to I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue at 6.30pm on a Monday evening instead of when I remember to select it from the BBC Radio Player. I need to sit in the Peter May Stand at The Oval. I need to see a London plane tree. I need to ride on the Underground. I need to go to a recital at The Wigmore Hall. I need to crawl along at a couple of miles an hour at 5.30pm on the Western Avenue in stifling heat and hear the traffic report on the radio say something like "...and the tailback heading out of town on the A40 begins at the Northern roundabout". I need to go into a caff and have eggs bacon beans sausage tomatoes mushrooms bubble a fried slice and a cup of splosh. I need to sit on the grass in Alexandra Park and then walk up Muswell Hill. I need to take a stroll along the promenade at Southend-on-Sea. I need to stand in the queue for the checkout at Sainsburys. I need to drink a glass of Fitou. And then I need to get right back to Texas... or somewhere.
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Brrrrrrp..... Blap!.
Posted Dec 3, 2001
This one's a film quote. Anyone know it?
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Microsoft
Posted Nov 30, 2001
Anyone else think that idea of Microsoft having to put their product in schools as part of the anti-trust settlement is a bit like Brer Rabbit saying "Please don't throw me in that there briar patch Brer Bear"?
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