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Affixed the following note to the windscreen of the six-mile-long station wagon estate whose tool of an owner parked it part-way across the entrance to the apartment's car park:"Come on now - it wasn't nearly difficult enough to get in the driveway. You can park a lot worse than that!"
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During the last couple of weeks I've found myself at two railway museums - one a premeditated visit; the other found by chance during a drive out into the Maine countryside.

Seashore Trolley Museum, in Kennebunkport, is the oldest and largest electric railway museum in the world.

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I've had four unread e-mails in my AIM account for about as many years. Just now, I clicked the 'I forgot my password eons ago' link (can you guess why?), entered my screen name, the letters displayed in the security image, and clicked Next. I assumed I'd then be prompted for an alternative address to which I'd like the password sent. No:You're ( Read more... )

Name: richard davies
Occupation: nothing
Comment: haya did u find out how to bk on msn is so can u help me coz i cant get on there it is sayin there is a firewall stopin me from signin in thanx

My "Where's George" one-dollar bill finally showed up on the radar again on August 21st after one of its recipients decided to play along:


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Chicago was a blast, even though the weekend went by alarmingly quickly. American Airlines managed to mislay our luggage somewhere between Logan and O'Hare. We arrived at 9.30pm on Thursday and were reunited with our two suitcases just twelve hours later. It would have been twenty-four hours later had two of the other four attending family members ( Read more... )

"Fdjadjadasdaseqeydpttfqrfthjyjk."

"Sorry?"

"May I axe what's making you cancel your AOL membership?"

[Silence.]

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Oh to be the owner of Poland Spring, Evian, or some other bottled tap-water company. I'd be doing a roaring trade today.