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so it looks like the time has finally arrived. the end is clearly nigh. i'd imagine the length of time that this place has existed in one form or another is actually considerably more than anyone imagined when they created it way back when. i suspect i leave as the most prolific poster of all time o...

seriously, i've got nothing. the best i could manage was a subbuteo reference which lacked a punchline.

unbelievable childish.

unsurprising that i made me giggle then.

unconscionable \uhn-KON-shuh-nuh-buhl\, adjective: 1. not influenced or guided by conscience 2. very great Hastert also took aim at the rich pay package for Exxon Mobil Corp.'s retired chief executive, which he called "unconscionable." -- Steven Mufson and Timothy Dwyer, The Washington Pos...

and the winners are announced.

more NIN fun.

I'm thinking that maybe it's time to move these, like most other things, onto twitter. comport \kum-PORT\, transitive verb: 1. To conduct or behave (oneself) in a particular manner. intransitive verb: 1. To be fitting; to accord; to agree -- usually followed by 'with'. Considered friendly and funny ...

i like those wave photos. i'd like to see the ones taking just after the cameraman has been flattened by the aforephotographed wave.

fair point, quite the oversight there.

gallimaufry \gal-uh-MAW-free\, noun:
A medley; a hodgepodge.

Today bilingual programs are conducted in a gallimaufry of around 80 tongues, ranging from Spanish to Lithuanian to Micronesian Yapese. -- Ezra Bowen, "For Learning or Ethnic Pride?", Time, July 8, 1985

gaucherie \goh-shuh-REE\, noun: 1. A socially awkward or tactless act. 2. Lack of tact; boorishness; awkwardness. If you find yourself sitting next to an obviously prosperous guest at a dinner party and your host introduces him (it will be a him) as a "successful barrister", you will be gu...

i had most definitely considered pestering him. but i can't help feeling he will use it as another distraction from doing the things he's paid to do.

there is a distinct possiblity i will become one of his tweet complaints.

i won't have that problem. that's the beauty of having a GCSE C in history.

right. i'm going to have to look into all this. i don't really want ads all over the place.

vim \VIM\, noun: Power; force; energy; spirit; activity; vigor. The 76-year-old retired Malaysian schoolteacher displayed so much vimduring a recent hike through a national park in Sarawak, astonished rangers began calling her a "recycled teenager." -- Choong Tet Sieu, "The Power to G...

*CONTINUED SPOILER ALERT* that thought did cross my mind, but then the title of the film would have had to be changed. and i think i would have felt cheated had it ended with the notion that the love of a good woman was worth a million rupees (or whatever the ultimate figure was). it would have felt...

i'll add that to the list of things to investigate.

well, stallone appears to be the driving force, so he may be pulling in some favours. he's a popular man in hollywood, so might be getting people on the cheap or on a back end promise.