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April 5,
Make Bread a Class A drug

Using the following statistics I believe that BREAD should be re-classified:- More than 98 percent of convicted felons are bread users. Fully HALF of all children who grow up in bread-consuming households score BELOW AVERAGE on standardised tests. In the 18th century, when virtually all bread was baked in the home, the average life expectancy […]

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April 4,
Instructions for life

Even though I am not a Buddhist, I think the following give a clear path to follow. "Instructions for Life" from the Dalai Lama: Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. When you lose, don't lose the lesson. Follow the three R's: Respect for self, respect for others, responsibility for […]

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April 1,
Interesting words and languages

The first word spoken on the moon was "okay". (Or not - see comments). Seoul, the South Korean capital, just means "the capital" in the Korean language. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with. There are only four common words in the English language which end in […]

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March 29,
Sometimes Truth is Stranger than Fiction

The following stories are allegedly true:- A man hit by a car in New York in 1977 got up uninjured, but lay back down in front of the car when a bystander told him to pretend he was hurt so he could collect insurance money. The car rolled forward and crushed him to death. In […]

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March 27,
Thoughts on golf

For Neen! In primitive society, when native tribes beat the ground with clubs and yelled, it was called witchcraft; today, in civilized society, it is called golf.The person who takes up golf to get their mind off work soon takes up work to get their mind off golf.If you really want to get better at […]

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March 21,
The madness of pluralisation

We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes; but the plural of ox became oxen not oxes. One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese, yet the plural of moose should never be meese. You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice; yet the plural of house […]

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