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This makes the Toyota Advert look pretty slick
2008-03-21 02:57:00
Not having lived in a high rise, I cannot really comment on the likelihood of this working on a regular basis.Thanks Guthrum the Old and Ian Grey the not so Old
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Massive U Turn by China after International Pressure
2008-03-20 19:11:00
Beijing has given in to international pressure and promised to change it's ways. While it is resolute on the Tibet issue, some jumped up athletic prima donnas have forced a major cultural change in the way pooping will be conducted during the Olympics.If you are stuck with the squat toilet, here is how you go about it.Approach the squat toilet apprehensively and make sure it's not covered in stool. If it is covered in stool, choose another stall. If another stall is not available, accept the cards that have been dealt you. This is a good time to come up with a title for your experience such as My Great B.M. Adventure or Disgusticon One. Close the door to the stall, knowing full well the handle has more germs on it than the entire population of Botswana. Place your feet on the appropriate foot grids, assuming they are not covered in stool. If they are covered in stool, place your feet on the least fouled space you can find, being careful to maintain balance. Unfasten and drop ...
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Happy Easter Week
2008-03-20 15:58:00
Happy Easter from The Easter Bunnyand from Mrs Easter Bunnyand from the cutie Easter Bunniesand from Ben and Daisy the real Easter Bunniesand from before Easter Lunchand after Easter Lunchand from Ryan and his class matesand Hannah and her classmatesLast night I was doing some shopping along with the masses at a Woolworths supermarket that I have not quite mastered in terms of its layout. Why are they all slightly different. I had found everything (well almost everything) and needed eggs, which despite having a prominantly labelled aisle, which I had failed to spot were all but invisible. I asked the checkout chick, who was bound to know and was quickly pointed over to the specials corner where hordes of shopping baskets were being filled with chocolate chickens and eggs to spread the joy. We both laughed when she realised that I was looking for the real thing. Even then she was not sure. I am sure Supermarkets lay things out this way to make you explore all aisles (and buy lots of ...
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Who Thought Blending Phones was Tricky
2008-03-17 13:38:00
For all those of you who are frustrated with trying to make a Hollondaise Sauce, try this. It is the AK47 of blending tools. There are many more and don't try this at home.
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Delusions of Grandeur
2008-03-17 11:49:00
Why Nauru is like Bear Stearns.Nauruans were high on the hog on a mix of Bird Poo and Coral until they dug it all up and spent the money on frivolous things. And then along came Kevin Rudd and shut down their last cash cow, the immmigration detention centre with about two refugees and two hundred employees. Cash cow to beat all cash cows. Nauruans realise that the party is well and truly over. Now comes the hangover and then, with luck, some sort of recovery. But it will take squeaky clean governance, hard work and rock-solid investments for Pleasant Island to once again live up to its name. It may not yet be paradise lost, but it is most definitely paradise postponed. And delusional Bear Stearns employees, who believed that everything would always go up in value lost that bet when their customers smelled the roses. The deal values Bear Stearns, which has been at the centre of the US mortgage debt crisis, at just $236m (£116m). Its shares have lost 98% of their value since their hi...

O'Bama Courts Irish Vote on St Patricks Day
2008-03-16 21:42:00
Today is St Patricks Day here in Australia. I understand that it was moved to last Saturday in other parts of the world so as to not clash with holy Monday and offend Catholics. Australians don't really make a big deal about St Patricks Day unlike the totally over the top stuff I witnessed in America. Thanks Mr Eugenides
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Are You a Little Mad?
2008-03-15 13:59:00
1. At Lunch Time, Sit In Your Parked Car With Sunglasses on and point a Hair Dryer at Passing Cars. See If They Slow Down.2. Page Yourself Over The Intercom. Don't Disguise Your Voice.3. Every Time Someone Asks You To Do Something, Ask If They Want Fries with that.4. Put Your Garbage Can On Your Desk And Label It 'In.'5. Put Decaf In The Coffee Maker For 3 Weeks. Once Everyone has Gotten Over Their Caffeine Addictions, Switch to Espresso.6. In The Memo Field Of All Your Checks, Write 'For Smuggling Diamonds'7. Finish All Your sentences with 'In Accordance With The Prophecy.'8. Don t use any punctuation9. As Often As Possible, Skip Rather Than Walk.10. Order a Diet Water whenever you go out to eat with a serious face.11. Specify That Your Drive-through Order Is 'To Go.'12. Sing Along At The Opera13. Go To A Poetry Recital And Ask Why The Poems Don't Rhyme14. Put Mosquito Netting Around Your Work Area And Play tropical Sounds All Day.15. Five Days In Advance , Tell Your Frie...

Saturday Sing Along
2008-03-14 21:02:00
I decided to start a new series of Happy Sing Along Songs to brighten up your day. I loved this one when I was little.You can blame schoolspirit for this and you can rest easy. I am unlikely to be doing this regularly.
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Photo Hunt: I Spy
2008-03-14 11:46:00
I spy with my little eye a bike, a basket, some tassles, a bike helmet, two valves, a white t shirt, a pedal, two white tires, lots of spokes, one shoe, some strong muscles, a smile and Hannah.I created an ISpy Blog for Ryan about a year ago. This is one of the posts.photohunt
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Obama Trading on Legacies from the 1960s
2008-03-13 22:13:00
Inspiring Black Man 1963Inspiring White Man 1961Lucky Black Man 2008?
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Slothfulfillment
2008-03-13 13:34:00
Greed:Medium Gluttony:Medium Wrath:Medium Sloth:Very High Envy:Very Low Lust:High Pride:Low Take the Seven Deadly Sins QuizI am too lazy to work out what sloth means.Thanks James and Jams

Hillary's Running Mate Plans Run Aground
2008-03-13 07:07:00
Ex-Governor Spitzer had a very telling self prophecy directed towards Obama earlier in the campaign that ?he won?t be able to shuck and jive out of this one.?Well put! Even in his wet dreams, he wont be escorting Hillary to the White House.One less Super Delegate for the Clintonistas.
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If it is in the news it must be true department
2008-03-13 06:59:00
Now I am pretty open minded, but this one strains credibility. Great story all the same. An American woman became stuck on her boyfriend?s toilet seat after sitting on it for two years, Kansas police say.It is believed the 35-year-old woman?s skin had grown around the seat, with police still considering whether to lay any charges against her boyfriend in the bizarre case."We pried the toilet seat off with a pry bar and the seat went with her to the hospital," Ness County Sheriff Bryan Whipple said. "The hospital removed it.""She was not glued. She was not tied. She was just physically stuck by her body," Whipple said. "It is hard to imagine... I still have a hard time imagining it myself."The woman?s boyfriend said he brought her food and water and asked every day to come out of the bathroom."And her reply would be, 'Maybe tomorrow,'" Whipple said."According to him, she did not want to leave the bathroom."Police are curious why the boyfriend waited two years before calling them to...
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Aussies the most vain?
2008-03-12 22:56:00
Australians use cosmetic surgery on a higher per capita basis than Americans, forking out over $300 million for botox and the like last year.There's been a 30 per cent growth in the industry last year, with the biggest growth in anti-wrinkle treatments mainly botox.Other people chose to have dermal filler procedures to plump up lips, while some favoured laser treatments for scarring or hair removal.And it's not just women, physicians have reported a 10 to 20 per cent increase in male clients last year, mainly seeking botox, acne-scarring treatments and facial vein surgery.Botox, Beer and Barbies. All Aussie Icons? What would Crocodile Dundee say?
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The Good Life II ?
2008-03-12 21:17:00
Not since Felicity Kendall and her goofy husband dug up the back yard have I seen something so nutty in the self sustainability/home gardening department.Fresh from Bag's Department of Nutty Ideas and Wrong Thinking, we have do it yourself bread making. Not the store bought packages in the bread maker, but plough the back yard and scatter variety.Baker and organic food campaigner Andrew Whitley believes the answer lies in your back garden and that it's time, as he puts it, to "bake your lawn". He is launching the Real Bread Campaign. "If wheat makes bread why not grow bread just like you grow vegetables. We think of it as being a massive prairie-style enterprise but it is just a plant like anything else. It's like grass. I think that this is a more sensible scale.
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Medical Round Up - Sexual Health
2008-03-12 20:48:00
My sister in law is a medical representative and keeps me up to date on what is going on in that field. Here is her latest update.In pharmacology, all drugs have two names, a trade name and generic name. For example, the trade name of Tylenol also has a generic name of Acetaminophen. Aleve is also called Naproxen. Amoxil is also called Amoxicillin and Advil is also called Ibuprofen.The FDA has been looking for a generic name for Viagra. After careful consideration by a team of government experts, it recently announced that it has settled on the generic name of Mycoxafloppin. Also considered were Mycoxafailin, Mydixadrupin, Mydixarizin, Dixafix, and of course, Ibepokin.Pfizer Corp. announced today that Viagra will soon be available in liquid form, and will be marketed by Pepsi Cola as a power beverage suitable for use as a mixer. It will now be possible for a man to literally pour himself a stiff one. Obviously we can no longer call this a soft drink, and it gives new meaning to the ...
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Get Entrecard See the World
2008-03-09 22:15:00
One of the interesting impacts of Entrecard is the increasing range of countries from which, people visit this blog, even if it is just to drop a card.Hello World .
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Star Wars Meets the Avengers
2008-03-09 22:10:00
If Star Wars was made in the 60s the intro would probably look like this. Very creative school project.Thanks Duncan
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Communist Republic of Barnsley 1 Nouveau Riche Ex Communist Republic of Che
2008-03-09 21:40:00
I wonder what sorts of odds you could have got for any of Cardiff, West Bromwich Albion, Barnsley or Portsmouth getting to the semi finals of the FA Cup, far less all of them. What a great competition. Barnsley last reached the semi finals ten days before the Titanic sank. My friend Daniel who grew up there reckons it is the most significant day in the history of the town. Who said that there was more to football than life and death?Would you rather be a Chelsea player or an England Cricketer or Brendan Nelson today?
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Bush Killing Fields Montage
2008-03-09 08:22:00
All Servicemen killed in Iraq.
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Photo Hunt: Different
2008-03-08 04:44:00
There are so many ways to look different.photohunt
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Fucking Elocution Lesson
2008-03-06 14:32:00
Don't listen if you get fucking offended by the multiple uses of the very useful work fuck.Thanks very fucking much to Ian the Entrecard Dropper Extraordinaire. He has this Drop Ranking, which I have never seen before Deeply committed - Deadly serious. A drop master
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This Makes Televised Darts Look Cerebral
2008-03-06 14:17:00
Strike 100 and Banzai to The Purple Turkey
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Greenwashing Spreads to Beer
2008-03-05 06:41:00
Not content with brewing crap beer, Fosters have decided to tackle the touchy feel green beer market. Not the lets get pissed St Patricks Day variety, but the latte sipping variety.The new brew is, unimaginatively, called Cascade Green, and not only have all the greenhouse emissions, from the growing of the hops to the recycling of the green bottle and label, been included, but it's low-calorie, too. Cascade Green's carbon offsets come from burning off methane gas from Tasmanian landfills and converting it to electricity, but will not include methane emissions derived from the beer's consumption.The Fosters-owned boutique brewery is confident its rigorous certification process will stand up to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's clampdown on misleading environmentally friendly claims. But does it taste any good? Gag!
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My Love is Like 124,000 Red Red Roses
2008-03-04 05:10:00
An Iranian woman has successfully claimed on her dowry with a court ordering her "stingy" husband to come up with 124,000 red roses which he promised in her dowry. Iranian women can claim on their dowry at any time. I wonder if she will get them all at once.Not so romantic!
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Lucky Escape for Lufthansa Plane
2008-03-04 00:56:00
I have been in some pretty rough flights and landings, but nothing like this. Lucky ! I suppose situations like these are why pilots get so much training and earn so much.
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Australian Mortgage Holders Weep
2008-03-03 22:51:00
Homeowners on variable interest rates in Australia face their gazillionth rate increase in the last year today. It must be excruciating, especially with more predicted in the not to distant future to rein in rampaging inflation. We are fixed for five years, which is good. My sister in law is selling their family home, which they worked very hard to get into because their period of fixed interest ends shortly. The revised repayments are unaffordable. This for somebody who lends for a bank. She knows what she is talking about.This at a time when housing affordability is at its lowest for a generation and their is a huge under supply of affordable housing. Many of the factors driving this are external, with huge pent up demand for many Australian resources contributing to inflation.At least it is not as bad as in the US.At Windy Ridge, a recently built starter-home development seven miles northwest of Charlotte, North Carolina, 81 of the community?s 132 small, vinyl-sided houses were i...
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Is Mark Nicholas Unctuous?
2008-03-03 14:45:00
Important issues such as whether Mark "GQ" Nicholas passes the mark as lead cricket presenter for Channel 9 here in Australia. I had to look up unctuous, but it would be hard to describe him better. Australia would have to be nine wickets down with 50 runs to get in the last two overs of a one day match for Nicholas to call the match as "in the balance".I always thought it was a bit odd having the most polished pommy accent being the main media cheerleader for the Aussie Cricket Team on television. Sort of Richie Benaud, who was the voice of television cricket for me when I grew up, with a lot less class. That said, the resident Brit on the ABC Radio commentary is Peter Roebuck, who, more knowledegable, is still very annoying. He only has a cameo role however.This person knows how to gauge Aussie opinion on this one. Not saying he is biased, but I have to agree with a lot of it. Aussies are passionate about the cricket team, but I doubt that they are looking for a cheer squad of one...

Our Sunflower Garden
2008-03-03 13:27:00
The kids planted these as seeds just after we bought the house. They survived being transplanted from the front of the house to the back, where I built a narrow garden bed next the shed. They are now in full bloom and the bees are busy. Hot again here in Adelaide. Mid to high 30 degrees all week. Even sunflowers wilt in that heat.
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Bill Predicts Ta Ta Hillary! Adios, Adieu, Goodnight
2008-03-01 22:56:00
When I lived in America, people always thought that Bill Clinton had great political intuition. Seems they were right.
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