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This Can’t Be Criminally Worthwhile, Can It?

( Misc. and Day 2 Day )

Almost every year the Royal Mint produces a different design for the reverse of the pound coin. One of the first things I noticed when I returned this time was that one of the newer designs was for the Forth Rail Bridge, at least I think it was the Forth bridge – it was difficult […]

49 or 42?

( Misc. and Blog Stuff )

Memes. Evil, nasty things, we hates them, but as my brain is in recover from three hours at the dentist mode again, and more importantly shock from seeing the “this is the bill for the work we’ve done so far”, a meme is about as good as it can get today. It’s all her fault […]

Public Service Announcement

( Misc. )

J, over at German Doesn’t Suck (he really needs to work on that name) is already planning this year’s German Expat Blog Meet. If you’re an Expat in Germany, possibly Austria, or maybe even the “German-speaking” (yeah, right) parts of Switzerland. Go over there and tell him why this year we should all try to […]

Got It!

( Misc. )

Bloody photographers and their competitions - and putting it in a set called “London Eye.”

Sunday Six

( Misc. )

1. Yesterday I had the pleasure of speaking to a young American lady of the Democratic persuasion. “It’s a good job you’ve got Tony Blair to look after you,” she said. “Shrub is destroying all our hard-fought for civil liberties. I could only give her the same advice as that of the Edinburgh Devil and […]

Advice For Scam Artists

( Misc. )

Just because the term is “Phishing” rather than “Fishing” for information doesn’t mean that littering your e-mails with grammatical and spelling mistakes is a good idea. If you are going to target people in Germany with mails at least learn a little about the background details.
I must admit, you almost got be this morning by […]