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  • Eleven comedies to watch

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    These are eleven comedies that I feel comfortable recommending! O’ brother where art thou: a modern take on the Odyssey Four weddings and a funeral: the hassles of getting married or not Austin Powers – International Man of Mystery: James Bond gone hippie Austin Powers – The Spy who Shagged me: Who does number two…

  • Fifteen ingenious songs by Weird Al

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    Weird Al Yankovic creates the most ingenious parodies of concurrent popular music, additionally he composes brilliant music of his own! Below is a list of my favourites! Amish Paradise, parody of Coolios “Gangsta’s Paradise” Fat, parody of Michael Jackson’s “Bad” You don’t love me anymore, Weird Al original Living with a Hernia, parody of James…

  • Arbeidsmarknad: Kommunistar vs Nazistar

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    Det er vanskeleg å sjå føre seg kven som skulle ville tilsetje “Einar” til noko som helst. Ikkje eg i alle fall!

  • The dangers of fly-fishing

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    Vreid lead singer and Avinet co-founder Sture sent me these touching photos from his annual salmon fishing expeditioin to the once famous, now apparently empty, salmon river Gaula in Trøndelag. The thumbnail photo shows a no. 10 fly-hook (accidentally) embedded into Stures index finger. The photo below shows a wall exhibition of fishing gear removed…

  • Marginale attraksjonar

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    Dess lenger ut i periferien ein kjem dess meir marginale er attraksjonane som vert marknadsførte. På vegen mellom Førde og Stongfjorden i Sunnfjord, finn ein mellom anna dette skiltet som skryter av at det finst daglegvarer å få kjøpt innan ein avstand på 1 km.

  • 32 ways to tick people off

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    Came across this wonderful list of ways to tick off your colleagues at work or other people for that matter: HOW TO TICK PEOPLE OFF 1. Leave the copy machine set to reduce 200%, extra dark, 17 inch paper, 99 copies. 2. In the memo field of all your checks, write “for sexual favors.” 3.…

  • Gevinst: 24 dagar fengsel på vilkår og 1.000 kroner i bot

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    Denne vakre saka var å finne i nettutgåva av Sogn Avis, 22 Mai 2007.

  • Lorem Ipsum

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    I have always been curious of the meaning behind the latin sounding “lorem ipsum” text frequently used as “placeholder text” by graphical designers. Here’s what I found: The phrase originates from a speech, De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, made by Marcus Tullius Cicero in the year 45 BC. The latin title means something like “On…

  • 8 000 rpm clothes drier

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    I spotted the ‘Clothes Drier’ at an electric appliance store the other day. This aptly named machine aspires to dry your clothes in a more efficient way, but I wouldn’t throw away my tumble-drier just yet. The Clothes Drier consists of a vertical cylinder mounted on a tripod with an electrical oven about fifty centimeters…

  • Star Wars inspired hand-held vacuum cleaner

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    While scouting for something to make the removal of leftover bread crumbs from fundamentally useless irish bread more efficient I encountered this laser-gun looking device. Vacuum cleaning might have been fun had I been in possession of one of these when I was little. Nowadays I am more uncertain as to whether this is the…