What I don't understand is, how can you call for a recount when you supposedly haven't seen the results of the first count?

Today in the work canteen I noticed for the first time, next to the smoothies, a new[*] product called a thickie. Like a smoothie only thicker, one presumes. I'm not sure whether I approve of this development.

[*] It may not be new. I'm not much of a smoothie person, so don't normally study the smoothie fridge in great detail.

#1 The Doctor Who Encyclopedia
#2 Machiavelli's "The Prince"
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#13 The Chronicles of Narnia
#14 Tales of the Greek Heroes
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#17 Mary Poppins
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#20 The Neverending Story

I mean. What the fucking fuck are they on, anyway? Mary Poppins?!

So, what with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Jamie Oliver and the rest publicising the poor conditions of battery hens, frax and I have been contemplating our diet. We only buy free-range eggs and meat anyway; but what we hadn't really considered previously was the produce that goes into such things as ( Read more... )

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/matthew_parris/article3097464.ece

Is it illegal to advocate the killing of a journalist? How about a heavy beating?

For a while spam wasn't a problem on my vapourspace email address. Then maybe a year or two ago I started getting annoying spam messages, which I began to filter out using outlook's message rules. This has recently got to the point where I'm filtering out perhaps 100 messages a day, and substantially slowing my downloading ( Read more... )

I just gained d4 hit points, +1 BAB, and some extra spells ( Read more... )

The "Y" key on my keyboard is starting to go. I am going to have to cut down on my adverbs.

At 3:24am I crit-failed my fortitude save, and my body finally succumbed to the lurgy.

In brief ( Read more... )