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				 paulzolo 
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						Argos is rebadged Green Shield Stamp shops.  https://t.co/p5mMTnJBBH 
					
						
					
  
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				 timark_uk 
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					 Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:11 pm Posts: 12146 Location: Belfast
				 
				 
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						 Sharon Stone suffered a stroke two years ago.
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				 pcernie 
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					 Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
				 
				 
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						That the mandatory Private Eye photo of Andrew Neil and a young lady had more history than I thought ‘Bachelor of Fleet Street’ Andrew Neil marries in secret | Media | The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/a ... -in-france 
					
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				 pcernie 
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						The Hollywood Vampires - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hollywood_VampiresLol @ Bernie Taupin.  
					
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				 pcernie 
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						 Didn't know Micro Machines did movie figures and playsets too, there's some absolutely brilliant Star Wars, Alien, Predator etc sets. 
					
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				 oceanicitl 
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					 Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:04 am Posts: 11039 Location: London
				 
				 
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						September is a popular month for new hires at Disco     
					
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				 TheFrenchun 
				Officially Mrs saspro 
				
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						that's usually when grads are released into the wild.  
					
  
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				 oceanicitl 
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						Thanks for that. I wasn't sure of the educational calendar. I think it's more to do with increasing London office capacity by 60 desks than when the schools and colleges chuck out.  
					
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				 davrosG5 
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					 Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:37 am Posts: 6954 Location: Peebo
				 
				 
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						 That Oracle uses the term 'data pump'. I'd heard of a data dump but never of a pump before. 
					
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				 pcernie 
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						Just found out MM are still a going concern!  
					
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				 pcernie 
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						Short of what goes on on Columbian hillsides, I'd never heard of a coke oven before Redcar steelworks receiver confirms closure of coke ovens | Business | The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/business/201 ... ms-closure 
					
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				 pcernie 
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						 Katey Sagal (SOA's Gemma Teller, Married With Children's Peggy) is a fantastic singer. 
					
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				 paulzolo 
				What's a life? 
				
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						 People are scraping Teletext pages off VHS recordings. 
					
						
					
  
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				 cloaked_wolf 
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						I didn't even know the Teletext portion of the signal was being recorded! I've got some old VHS tapes lying around that I've been meaning to view to check for content and then in all likelihood dispose of.  
					
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				 pcernie 
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						 Mozilla plan to kill off things like Java, Silverlight etc in 2016, but leave Flash be, even though they recently disavowed it. Apparently this is because there's little use for the others but Flash remains prevalent. They claim this will stop a lot of crashes. 
					
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