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Archive for January, 2006

Total Lack Of Class By Ford

Friday, January 27th, 2006

I’ve been a Ford guy for a long time. But I was a little disappointed in reading the news today.
The Ford plant in Dearborn Michigan announced today that shortly you will need to drive a Ford to park in the parking lot of the truck plant.
Assembly line workers work on assembly lines because they […]

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I wondered what the dog-faced boy was smoking this morning when he “tagged” me on MSN Messenger, but I guess my RSS reader was on work-to-rule or something, because I didn’t notice this entry until just now.
Here we go.
FOUR JOBS I’VE HAD (and you didn’t say I had to take the impressive ones)

Elf. […]

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The Moment You’ve All Been Waiting For…

Friday, January 27th, 2006

I just know that Justin put Bonnie up to taking this quiz because he knew that I would not be able to resist it, and he was DIEING to know my results.
So here it is.

Your Brain’s Pattern

You have a tempered, reasonable way of thinking.
You tend to take every new idea in, and meld it with […]

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Florida Just Knows How To Have A Good Time

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

The Supreme Court in Florida has blocked an execution by lethal injection because concerns have been raised that the chemicals used may cause pain to the inmate being executed.
It’s not like the ones who sit in the electric chair are singing “Oh Happy Day” when the voltage hits.
People need to get a grip.

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Thank God For The Advent Of Large Hard Drives

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

I’ve noticed the last few days that the performance of Thunderbird - my e-mail application - has been getting a little sluggish. Recently I switched back to Thunderbird for all my RSS feeds, and that has definately increased the amount of data stored in the program’s database. The Google News feed (which is […]

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Surely Not Selleck?

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that the television show Magnum P.I. is coming to the big screen.
Tom Selleck is turning 61 this year. I don’t think he’ll be up for racing around in a Ferrari.
John Hillerman (Higgins) is turning 74 this year, and hasn’t taken a serious acting role in over 10 years. […]

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Au Revoir, Paul

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

For once I wasn’t glue to the television set the night of the election, so I missed a story I should have picked up last night during Paul Martin’s concession speech. He’s leaving the leadership.
Awwwwwww.
We’ll miss you, Paul.
The same way we miss the Spanish flu pandemic of 1919.
Au revoir, Paul.

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