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		<title>Cross In Box</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/11/cross-in-box/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/11/cross-in-box/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing the theme of suffrage, if you were unfortunate (and nerdy) enough to listen to Today In Parliament yesterday evening, you will have been treated to our law-makers displaying the sort of ignorance of the basics of the law and of European institutions that makes you embarrassed to be a British citizen as they debated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Assimilation</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/07/assimilation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/07/assimilation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:23:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=5041</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Further to my most recent extended comment on That Bigoted Woman, I note The Mirror reports that Gillian Duffy, who wondered during the UK General Election where all those Eastern Europeans are flocking from, has come out in support of David Miliband for the position leader of the Labour Party. David Miliband is the offspring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Stereotypes</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/10/national-stereotypes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/10/national-stereotypes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Searches]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=4731</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have just searched Google News for &#8220;Afghanistan&#8221;. The top three stories are, in&#160;order: 500 more British soldiers will go to Afghanistan&#8212;[report] Italians bribed the Taleban all over Afghanistan&#8212;[report] France will not send any more troops to Afghanistan&#8212;[report]]]></description>
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		<title>Jew Do You Think You Are?</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/01/jew-do-you-think-you-are/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/01/jew-do-you-think-you-are/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Friends]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever someone implies that anti-Semitism isn&#8217;t racism, I point out that it&#8217;s one of the few examples of discrimination that really is racism (unlike, for example, the invented thoughtcrime &#8220;Islamophobia&#8221;1 ) because the Ashkenazi Jewish population is as close as you can get scientifically to the common (and deeply flawed) notion of what a &#8220;race&#8221;&#160;is. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ooh, That&#8217;s A New One</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/11/ooh-thats-a-new-one/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/11/ooh-thats-a-new-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mainland Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=3740</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year, Newsbiscuit ran a spoof &#8220;NEWSPAPERS RUN OUT OF &#8216;LORD LEVY IS JEWISH&#8217; EUPHEMISMS&#8221; story [requires free registration] I was reminded of it when I read this from the latest statement by &#8220;the neo-Nazi North German Action Office&#8221;, as reported in the Wall Street&#160;Journal: Inasmuch as it is a determined opponent of the western-plutocratic [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Marching Across Europe</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/09/marching-across-europe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/09/marching-across-europe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animals]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=3297</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are scared of spiders then please don&#8217;t follow this link [requires&#160;Flash].]]></description>
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		<title>Another One Of Google&#8217;s Smirks</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/06/another-one-of-googles-smirks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/06/another-one-of-googles-smirks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Language]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=3204</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you type &#8220;Gaullism&#8221; into Google correctly then this what you&#160;see: If you omit an &#8216;L&#8217;, you get&#160;this:]]></description>
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		<title>Bear With A Big Head</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/03/bear-with-a-big-head/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/03/bear-with-a-big-head/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:09:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animals]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=3158</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[KNUT the polar bear has turned from a cuddly cub into a publicity-addicted psycho, one of his keepers has&#160;claimed. Markus Roebke said Berlin Zoo&#8217;s celebrity animal was obsessed with the limelight and howled with rage when denied an&#160;audience. &#8220;Knut must go and the sooner the better,&#8221; he said, insisting that the bear should be sent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amateur Video</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/01/amateur-video/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/01/amateur-video/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humour]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=3099</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While I&#8217;m recommending films, I notice that The Amateurs [aka The Moguls] is being advertised on the Apple trailer site as on theatrical release in the States. This is odd because I&#8217;ve already seen it cheaply in the UK via Amazon&#8217;s DVDs-by-post service. Perhaps it went straight to video here because it had stinking reviews. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>That Awkward Post-Match Dinner</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/09/that-awkward-post-match-dinner/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/09/that-awkward-post-match-dinner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=3056</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Meysterr McClaren, you hyev harrdly touched your sushi.&#8221;]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Sex-Starved African In Steamy Hotel Room Action With Brazilian Maid</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/09/sex-starved-african-in-steamy-hotel-room-action-with-brazilian-maid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/09/sex-starved-african-in-steamy-hotel-room-action-with-brazilian-maid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 08:39:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fashion]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=3040</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sorry about the silence. I&#8217;ve been working hard in Portugal and working hard&#160;here. Stevie Wonder says I look just like him in these shades My exact ethnic background isn&#8217;t immediately obvious from my appearance. Most Sierra Leoneans would call me &#8220;white&#8221;; most Brits wouldn&#8217;t. To a large fraction of the people on this planet I [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Achtung!</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/08/achtung/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/08/achtung/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 08:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brentian Man]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Driving]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=3002</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This has been online for so long and is so funny that it&#8217;s hard to believe that no one has sent me a link to it before. Perhaps this is because it&#8217;s a German health and safety video and, for the first minute or so, is exactly as entertaining as that description suggests. But it [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Netherlands</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/06/netherlands/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/06/netherlands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Euston Manifesto]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=2904</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To my immense amusement, I am quoted in a national Dutch free daily newspaper today, saying (of the Euston Manifesto): &#8220;We had no idea it would get so&#160;big&#8221;.]]></description>
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		<title>Life, Art, Chocolate</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/03/life-art-chocolate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/03/life-art-chocolate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=2786</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was in Belgium last week, I was surprised to discover that it was just like the movies:]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>The European Confession</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/03/the-european-confession/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/03/the-european-confession/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=2772</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[During the dying months of my doing bioinformatics for a living, I attended a scientific conference in Scotland. I helped to run a few of the seminars there, but had nothing to do with their&#160;planning. At one, I marched to the front during a student&#8217;s presentation and told a member of the audience to stop [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Tim-ba!</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/01/tim-ba/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/01/tim-ba/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jan 2007 10:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=2723</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Talking of recycling, it looks like producer Timbaland has some explaining to do to a Finnish computer musician about a backing track that Mr Land laid down for Nelly Furtado. [The previous link goes to YouTube, but you can follow these links to MP3s of the&#160;tunes.] There&#8217;s something amusing about a deep-voiced multimillionaire hip-hop svengali [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Concept Album</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/01/concept-album/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/01/concept-album/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jan 2007 14:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=2711</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Germany has the lowest birthrate in Europe. Luckily, help is at&#160;hand.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Making A Connection</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/12/making-a-connection/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/12/making-a-connection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2006 21:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=2679</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[According to The Times: [DAVID] IRVING ATTACKS AUSTRIA AFTER&#160;BAN Surely he knows enough history to have arranged for some of his far-Right friends inside the country to organise a peaceful takeover&#160;instead?]]></description>
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		<title>Parisians Rude. Japanese Surrender.</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/12/parisians-rude-japanese-surrender/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/12/parisians-rude-japanese-surrender/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=2677</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s true, I tell&#160;you.]]></description>
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		<title>Tri-band Mobile</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/12/triband-mobile/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/12/triband-mobile/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:41:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are familiar with the official French attitude* to the use of English in academic (and other cultural) settings, the appearance of a state-funded TV station, &#8220;France&#160;24&#8221;, with an English-language feed might surprise you. It did me when I watched one of their online English-language video ads a few days ago. They also broadcast&#160;Arabic. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not German Efficiency</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/12/not-german-efficiency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2006 13:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am notoriously sensitive to people revealing the plots of television series and films. As pharma geek Anthony correctly diagnosed, I watch things long after their broadcast/release, often via Amazon&#8217;s cheap and cheerful rental-by-post system, and I don&#8217;t have a TV. A side-effect is that many of my reviews here are out-of-date, but at least [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overheard In New York</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/12/overheard-in-new-york/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/12/overheard-in-new-york/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2006 15:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone at Harry&#8217;s Place comments that Until now, I thought Gwyneth Paltrow was&#160;Welsh.&#8221; which reminds me of being in a video rental store in NYC in the late 90s with a local. An old Tom Jones song starts playing. &#8220;Well, I never,&#8221; says I to my native companion in my conspicuously British way, &#8220;This is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Physicists Walk On Water</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/12/physicists-walk-on-water/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/12/physicists-walk-on-water/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2006 14:25:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beat this, Jesus of&#160;Nazareth. [thanks to&#160;Liam]]]></description>
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		<title>Waffly Good</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/10/waffly-good/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/10/waffly-good/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Oct 2006 09:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regulars will know that I am not a lover of art house cinema. (I have been meaning to slag off the execrable Volver here since I saw endured it a few weeks back.) But yesterday evening I watched a grim, documentary-style Belgian film and enjoyed it. Hilariously, the plot, such as it is, centres almost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fishmaster!</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/09/fishmaster/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/09/fishmaster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Sep 2006 15:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those of you who didn&#8217;t know it already will not be surprised to learn that there is a Finnish symphonic rock outfit called Nightwish. They have recently sacked their soprano lead, so, if that&#8217;s your bag, now&#8217;s your chance to put on your horned helmet and boob-armour and record a demo for them. This YouTube [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Channel Is Narrow But Deep</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/08/the-channel-is-narrow-but-deep/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/08/the-channel-is-narrow-but-deep/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 07:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On my way to have my teeth checked yesterday morning I was listening to BBC Radio 4. Woman&#8217;s Hour was recounting the forgotten history of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. The best bit was when one of the experts recited the original French words to the tune of the nursery rhyme and reminded us of how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Test Drive The New Volkswagen Pantheon</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/07/test-drive-the-new-volkswagen-pantheon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/07/test-drive-the-new-volkswagen-pantheon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2006 11:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of PooterGeek&#8217;s current side projects is The New Uxbridge Encyclopedia Of The Classical World, a vital and relevant guide to what has often been dismissed as a dead discipline, specifically designed to appeal to comprehensive school&#160;pupils. Just like the compilers of the OED, the staff of the NUECW welcome submissions from the general public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snort</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/07/snort/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 2006 11:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coca-Cola Germany&#8217;s customer care service is called the &#8220;Coke&#160;Line&#8221;.]]></description>
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		<title>The Stupider Party</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/07/the-stupider-party/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 08:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s Economist reveals that one of the few Conservative parties in the European Parliament prepared to line up with David Cameron over the creation of a new Right grouping is the Polish Law and Justice Party, known by the acronym &#8220;PiS&#8221;. Its leader recently tried to stop a gay rights march in Warsaw. It wants [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barawque&#8217;n&#039;Roll!</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/06/barawquenroll/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/06/barawquenroll/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jun 2006 09:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This video of a guy playing Pachelbel&#8217;s Canon on his electric guitar starts sedately enough, but after a minute you&#8217;ll have one foot propped up on your PC base unit and a window open so that the breeze blows through the cascading ringlets of your bubble-perm&#160;wig. For some reason the guitarist keeps his face hidden [...]]]></description>
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