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Happy New Year!

Eddie Mair | 00:01 UK time, Thursday, 1 January 2009

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  • 1. At 00:51am on 01 Jan 2009, Deepthought wrote:

    HNY to froggers old and new, Eddie and Sequin and their stand-ins, and the team..

    And was that a complete "sailing by" at 00:45 + 1 sec?

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  • 2. At 07:45am on 01 Jan 2009, CSRFlorida wrote:

    Welcome 2009. You're gonna love it here.

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  • 3. At 09:07am on 01 Jan 2009, Piper wrote:

    ...and to you and the team Eddie. I'm looking forward to it already.

    Only 364 days to go...

    "pseudoscholarship" Wonderful word, from an interesting article! Anyway, I really am determined to work "that" word into a letter or email today.

    Ayway, if the expectation stated in the final paragraph of the following article were to materialise..? Well, I suspect seeing Holy Smoke would be the least of our problems...

    "The Guardian and Radio 4 team up for a gruesome study of the Virgin Birth"

    http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/damian_thompson/blog/2008/12/31/the_guardian_and_radio_4_team_up_for_a_gruesome_study_of_the_virgin_birth

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  • 4. At 09:20am on 01 Jan 2009, Piper wrote:

    For those "suffering" celebration excesses this morning, on the iPM Blog, the ever helpful Chris Vallance has detailed where pain-killers might be found.

    And, to save time this article might save some, time and money:

    "10 bullshit hangover cures for the New Year"

    http://counterknowledge.com/?p=1809

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  • 5. At 10:33am on 01 Jan 2009, RachelG wrote:

    Happy New Year one and all! Here's to better news but just the same quality of news coverage in 2009.

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  • 6. At 10:40am on 01 Jan 2009, gossipmistress wrote:

    Nice seepia-tint fireworks!

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  • 7. At 10:51am on 01 Jan 2009, radiantStan-ley wrote:

    Happy New Year everyone. There are some plusses for not celebrating N.Y. When you arise everyone elses curtains are still drawn and you have no regrets about the excesses of the night before. However, it would have been preferable to being in bed with 'flu. Still there's always next year - God willing.

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  • 8. At 1:14pm on 01 Jan 2009, Chris_Ghoti wrote:

    Piper @ 4, I once went to a talk being given by a biochemist who'd made a bit of a study of hangovers (can't think why, he only got drunk once during the weekend conference) and the effect of booze on the human being in general. He said in effect 'There is no cure for a hangover', but offered a few tips for things that may make it less severe. One is 'whether you want to or not drink about a pint of water before passing out; it will help against the dehydration.' Another was 'That old hair-of-the-dog thing does work for extreme overindulgence, because after a while your liver gets fed up with working at full revs and slows down while you still have alcohol in the system; giving it a very small amount of fresh alcohol kicks it back to work by making it start all over again.' And a third was 'for breakfast, marmite and brown toast washed down with orange juice helps a bit, because it contains the right vitimins. You'll still feel godawful, but you probably won't be sick.'

    There was a lot of other very complicated stuff about metabolic rates and whatall else, but those three things might be some use to someone somewhere some time. :-)

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  • 9. At 2:01pm on 01 Jan 2009, nikki noodle wrote:

    Happy New Year to everyone at PM!!!!

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  • 10. At 4:36pm on 01 Jan 2009, Otter wrote:

    Happy New Year everyone.

    Best wishes,

    Otter

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  • 11. At 8:39pm on 01 Jan 2009, Piper wrote:

    Chris@8

    Good luck!

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  • 12. At 9:11pm on 01 Jan 2009, Dennis Junior wrote:

    Happy New Years to everyone....

    ~Dennis Junior~

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