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Move Over Plan 9, You’ve Lost Your Status
About a week before Halloween, we popped into Tesco to pick up some of the stuff we might need for the week ahead but also a few Halloween goodies, including sweets for trick or treaters [more…]
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20th Century
A History of Pop Music – Albums 1972
Featured Album: David Bowie – The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to whatever year we end up in. [more…]
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The Man Comes Around
Whoever is unjust let him be unjust still, Whoever is righteous let him be righteous still, Whoever is filthy let him be filthy still, Listen to the words long written down, When the man comes [more…]
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Didn’t He Do Well?
O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! Thus wrote grumpy bad speller of a Scottish poet, doonhamer Rabbie Burns. To be blunt, dear Puffins, I wish that [more…]
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Cnuteneering, Part Seven
Welcome back to Cnuteneering, where the possible is made more difficult by bone headed ignorance, overenthusiasm and pointy metal things being brought at speed close to my fingers. You may want to refresh your memory [more…]
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Wankpuffin’s 2020 Going Postal Fireside Christmas Special Spectacular
Thanks to all of you who wrote the songs. Merry Christmas puffins. Have a great Christmas! © EJ 2020 Ed. If you receive an age restricted message I have found that Firefox doesn’t seem to [more…]
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The Swaling, Part Thirty Five
“Type Tammy-May Trevallion into social media,” I instructed Rose who was in charge of the keyboard at our computer terminal in the underground communications room at the British High Commission, at the better end of [more…]
20th Century
A History of Pop Music – Albums 1971
Featured Album: T-Rex – Electric Warrior This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to whatever year we end up in. I will select a featured album for each year and the [more…]
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The Ultimate Christmas Movie
Let’s face it, Puffins. For those of you either still tied to the TV license or have a predilection towards masochism, the broadcasters are going to throw a bucket of cheesy as arse Christmas movies [more…]