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<<Does he actually live in the same reality as the rest of us?>>
 Very likely not...
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Posted Apr 3, 2005 by pixel
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Just saw a story about french wine growers throwing dynamite at municipal offices in protest at falling sales.
<< in protest at falling sales.>>
Now that is just bizarre!
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Posted Apr 4, 2005 by pixel
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Apparently we're all buying too much new world wine and they want their government to do something about it.Declare war on Australia maybe
You just KNOW we Aussie's would fight to defend our booze!! 
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Posted Apr 4, 2005 by King Bomba
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Hmm, France could be on to a winner then...While they're fighting to keep Aussie booze out of their country, the Aussies are fighting to keep it in theirs! 
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Posted Apr 4, 2005 by Galaxy Babe
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The Pope's funeral will be on Friday.
The royal wedding has been postponed until Saturday.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4409507.stm
The link for the above story.
And just to show that there is no security that can't be got round through the application of very simple techniques:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/04/fingerprint_merc_chop/
"A Malaysian businessman has lost a finger to car thieves impatient to get around his Mercedes' fingerprint security system...they chopped off the end of his index finger with a machete."
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Posted May 16, 2005 by Lady in a tree
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4550069.stm
I've never seen the film Shine but apparently this story shows some similarities.
Still - very intriguing!!
<<I've never seen the film Shine but apparently this story shows some similarities.>>
Indeed!
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Posted May 21, 2005 by Lady in a tree
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4568321.stm
Oooops!  with a talcum powder habit!
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Posted May 21, 2005 by Woodpigeon
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"US teacher marries boy she raped"
A former US schoolteacher has married an ex-pupil 10 years after she raped him when he was just 12.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4569259.stm
Bizarre...
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200505/s1374173.htm
The bit about 'aeroplanes being programmed to be even more terrified of crashing than their passengers' made me think of DNA...
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Posted May 26, 2005 by King Bomba
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4578895.stm
Now you can go on the go!
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Posted May 28, 2005 by King Bomba
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Baby stable after second head removed:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6998205/?GT1=6190
That's freaky, but good that the baby is all right...
James Bond's space suit found!
http://www.space.com/news/mol_spacesuits_050603.html
Oh, ok, it's a story about a locked room at NASA found to contain two spacesuits from the 60's for spies working in orbit. But one of the suits has the identifier '007' on it
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4614515.stm
Worrying. The generation that will, one day, rule the world.
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