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| Something worse than snake bite |
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Gasman59 ::
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Sun Aug 20, 2006 3:24 pm
I have a 7 and a half foot Boa and she does shit quite a lot. Than God she's in a huge assed tank or I'd be stepping in snake shit all the day long.
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| Bill Hicks and The Fringe |
Author:
faceless ::
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Sun Aug 20, 2006 2:48 pm
Laughing in his grave
Loudmouth controversial stand-ups are everywhere. So why does a US comic who died 12 years ago still transfix the Fringe? Brian Logan on the legacy of Bill Hicks
Thursday August 17, 2006
The Guardian
Most of us have heard of the American fashion for asking: "What would Jesus do?" You may be more surprised to learn that a book was recently published entitled What Would Bill Hicks Say?, featuring contributions from, among others, Rob Newman, AL Kennedy and Radiohead's Thom Yorke. Are we to infer that the late US stand-up, who died in 1994 aged 32, is comedy's Christ?
He has certainly risen again at this year's Edinburgh. The hit Fringe show Bill Hicks: Slight Return, in which Hicks is brought back to life in 2006 by writer and actor Chas Early, is back at the Pleasance. At the Dome, Hicks's childhood friend and one-time comedy partner Dwight Slade is staging three seminars, entitled Bill & Dwight, in which he reminisces about their relationship. And the runaway favourite for this year's if.comeddies award, the brilliant American stand-up Doug Stanhope, is forever being...
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| FULL SHOW - Time Trumpet |
Author:
faceless ::
Posted:
Sun Aug 20, 2006 2:41 pm
Dear John, wish you weren't here
Armando Iannucci
Sunday August 20, 2006
The Observer
In a week in which it's been officially terrifying to fly, a remarkable number of us have been encouraging politicians to do so. Demands have been soaring for Tony Blair to fly back immediately from his holidays and for John Prescott to fly off on one. I never thought I'd sympathise with the politician's lot, but the hysterics of the past few days have played havoc with logic.
First, John Reid announces a terrorist plot has been foiled, so everyone demands Blair flies home to 'take charge' of the situation. What situation? There isn't one. Nothing has happened! That was the point of the announcement: there's no national emergency because the emergency has been prevented. But no; there isn't a crisis and our Prime Minister should come home to not deal with it.
Meantime, Reid is in charge of co-ordinating our response to the lack of atrocity. But where's Prescott? everyone demands. If there's a national non-emergency, surely he's the man best qualified to not handle it? A day goes by. A day...
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| The World Cup |
Author:
faceless ::
Posted:
Sun Aug 20, 2006 2:24 pm
Here's another World Cup song for England that I just found..
England England, Uber Alles
DOWNLOAD
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| Noel Gallagher on Pele and Maradona |
Author:
faceless ::
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Sun Aug 20, 2006 2:21 pm
Here's an interesting interview with Noel Gallagher in which he talks about meeting Pele...
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| Rooney threatens the FA! |
Author:
faceless ::
Posted:
Sun Aug 20, 2006 2:15 pm
Furious Rooney in threat to FA
James Robinson and Denis Campbell
Sunday August 20, 2006
The Observer
Wayne Rooney has issued an extraordinary warning to the FA that he will reduce his role with the England team unless they review their three-match ban imposed for his latest sending-off.
In an unprecedented move, the Manchester United striker has told the FA that he will stop co-operating with their money-making activities around the England team - such as personal appearances for sponsors - unless they rethink the suspension handed down last week for the red card he received for violent conduct in a pre-season friendly.
In a letter to FA chief executive Brian Barwick on Rooney's behalf, the player's agent, Paul Stretford, wrote: 'I am writing on behalf of my client to express his utter dismay at the decision' not to overturn the ban. Rooney 'feels extremely let down by the FA on this matter', added Stretford.
The letter then said: 'While he will continue if selected to play for his country with the pride and commitment, he is considering withdrawing his support for the FA's commercial programme:...
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| Holocaust Cartoon Exhibition |
Author:
faceless ::
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Sun Aug 20, 2006 2:11 pm
Iran cartoon show mocks Holocaust
Robert Tait in Tehran
Sunday August 20, 2006
The Observer
Ariel Sharon, the incapacitated former Israeli Prime Minister, is wearing an SS uniform. A man with Jewish side locks is depicted as a vampire drinking from a container marked 'Palestinian blood'. An Arab figure is impaled to the ground by the absurdly long nose of a man in a black hat characteristic of orthodox Jews and marked 'Holocaust'.
At their worst, the images conform to lurid western stereotypes of Iran as a hotbed of anti-Semitism, as evoked by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's dismissal of the Holocaust as a 'myth'.
They are among the results of a competition run by the country's biggest-selling newspaper, Hamshahri, to find the 'cleverest' cartoons satirising the slaughter of six million Jews by the Nazis in the Second World War.
More than 200 images have gone on public display in an exhibition at Tehran's Palestine Contemporary Art Museum. The exhibition's opening was attended by the de facto Palestinian ambassador to Iran, Salah al-Zawawi, who has full diplomatic status in Tehran.
Organisers say they received about 750 entries from around the world,...
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| The Chaser's War on Everything |
Author:
faceless ::
Posted:
Sun Aug 20, 2006 2:06 pm
This is a great show, I'm uploading the first episode to guba.com just now and it should be available in an hour or two (they need to verify it etc)
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| BIG BROTHER 7 DISCUSSION |
Author:
faceless ::
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Sun Aug 20, 2006 12:40 pm
| Kezza wrote: | Russell's opening monologue on the final BBBM was absolutely, hands-down hysterical. "Pete, if there was ever a time for you to call someone a wanker, this is it!" Loved it!  |
Yeah, that Big Mouth was brilliant - some of the most entertaining tv I've seen in a good while. I'm looking forward to Brand's new show - finally a host who is intelligent, witty self-abasing and crude as hell!
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| U.S. BB: Should Marcellas Return as Co-Host of House Calls? |
Author:
Kezza ::
Posted:
Sun Aug 20, 2006 6:10 am
U.S. BB: Should Marcellas Return as Co-Host of House Calls, the Big Brother Internet Chat Show? 
I was quite surprised by his personality "flip" whilst he was inside the house -- very different from the funny, lovable co-host of "House Calls." I'm not so sure I'd miss him if he were not to return next summer. Last summer, he went on and on about how much he LOVED Janelle and Kaysar --- then he does a 180 and says some very mean things about them (which neither Janelle nor Kaysar said about Marcy). Any thoughts?
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