This really would be a stunning joke to be remembered for ever and a day…
When the crew of the next NASA space shuttle re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere back from their orbital mission, we should all slip into monkey costumes and freak them out!

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Sometimes I feel like I’ve been living under a rock, having just emerged to find that the world has gone mad.
It’s useful if you have allergies to see ‘may contain nuts’ (or traces of nuts or whathever) on the label of a cake, especially if the cake is covered in chocolate and cream and you [...]

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I refuse to believe that I am the only person to whom this happens on a regular basis:
Checking the sell by date on a tin or a can…
You start by looking at the label, where you would think somebody logical would place the sell by date, so that it can be found easily. But no, [...]

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Why is dyslexia so hard to spell?
Is it so the rest of us can see what it’s like?

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I have a distinct memory of a particular advertising campaign some years ago, but it’s so ridiculous that I’m not entirely sure whether my mind (for some bizarre reason) has fabricated this.
Round about the time when HIV was first receiving a lot of media attention, one particular phrase became a kind of slogan. It was:
AIDS, [...]

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What a great song by Katie Mellua… who I thought was actually Katie Tonsil
But every time I hear it I want to know if it’s true that it’s a fact!
How does she know this? Is there a census for bicycles in China?
This bothers me.
I’m going to stop listening to that song…

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Why is the word phonetic NOT ‘phonetic’ in itself! If it was, it would be spelt ‘fonetic’!
I believe the Irish spell the word ‘fonetic’. This makes me tremendously happy. Somebody somewhere does think!
But back to the cretin who thought fonetic should be spelt with a ‘ph’. Could this perhaps be the same joker who then [...]

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