Archive for June, 2006
Monday, June 26th, 2006
The text from a letter from the UK's Inland Revenue to a poor tax payer (Chris Addison) which was published in the Guardian newspaper in September 2003, has been circulating again in email circles.
It made me laugh, so I thought I'd share it with you.
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Friday, June 23rd, 2006
Croatia defender Josip Simunic set a new world cup record when he got booked three times in the match between Croatia and Australia. Normally when the second yellow is shown, it is followed by a red as the player gets his marching orders. However, in this case, English referee Graham ...
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Thursday, June 22nd, 2006
Imagine the unimaginable - God chooses you to host the birth of the second coming of Christ. Well, three sisters from Inverness in Scotland have imagined such a situation, and since the year 2000 they have had insurance cover for the eventuality that one of them immaculately conceives the second coming ...
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Wednesday, June 21st, 2006
Are house prices going to rise forever? Have they peaked? Is the property market to be gloomy or golden over the next few years. Robert F. Martin an economist with the US Federal Reserve published a very interesting discussion document last year – with a model that predicts house prices ...
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Wednesday, June 21st, 2006
A TV show on the BBC called Urban Chef grabbed my attention. It featured a chef called Oliver Rowe who has the vision of creating a restaurant in London that sources all of its food from London itself. That's not to just say buying all of its food from London, but ...
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Tuesday, June 20th, 2006
"I hope England are on the first plane back from Deutchsland. I'm from the People's Republic of Mancunia. I'll have to leave if they win it. The country will be full of cockneys going on about it for years."
Primal Scream bass player Mani.
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Monday, June 19th, 2006
blog noun
a personal diary stored online written by one or more people containing a chronological log of thoughts and ideas published on a web page.
Origin: shortened form of Weblog
blog, blogged, blogging v, blogger n.
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