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:: Saturday, October 04, 2003 ::

Nice selection of desktop images from Hyman records

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My PC doesn't have that special software that allows you to upload pictures of breaded cod.

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Have watched the Goth doc now. It presented a lot of circumstantial evidence to support its claim but the basic argument was, "being a Goth separates the wheat from the chaff, so you already know you have a lot in common." All the girls in it were gorgeous though, I think I’m going have to get myself some leather trousers and grow my hair again.

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The upload file feature doesn’t seem to be working at the moment Slim. email the file to me at home and I’ll ftp it.

Haven't watched the Goth programme yet, I’ll let you know what its like.

Sad, sad day for art. Monet's Water Lilies wasn't painted by Rolf Harris and the Mona Lisa was not painted by Leonardo Di Caprio, despite what the British public might tell you.

I’m on holiday next week so posts are likely to be more sporadic.

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I missed the 'Goths Make Better Lovers' programme last night. Any good? Did they reach any conclusions regarding the validity of the claim?

Speaking of great telly, Commando is on tonight. I've seen it dozens of times before but it still amazes me how a film with the opening line; 'Here come our sandwiches.' can boast such a huge body-count.

Also, Dennis Norden is back this Saturday with a 9th Laughter File. I must admit I thought he'd stop at his seventh laughter file but then he hits us with another two. The guy is unstoppable! With ITV's continuing support, I don't see any reason why he can't go on to 10 or even eleven. Amazing!

I like the fish pictures. Here's another;

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Following the lunch time pub conversation about strange fish (what else) GussetBlog proudly presents fish you would never believe existed

THE SPOTTED HANDFISH



"Handfish are small, unusual, slow-moving fish that prefer to 'walk' on their pectoral and pelvic fins rather than swim. The pectoral or side fins are leg-like with their extremities resembling a human hand (hence their common name)."

THE GLOBSTER



In a book called Living Wonders two English authors, John Michell and Robert Rickard, suggest that Australia may be the home of the monster to out-monster all monsters - and it lives in the sea. They call it the "globster."

They claim that the globsters were first discovered on the west coast of Tasmania in 1960 when the body of one was washed on a beach by a storm. A cattleman named Bill Fenton came across it.

The carcase measured 18 feet to 20 feet across. It was almost circular in shape and was covered by soft fur. It had a large mound in the centre and what appeared to be a set of gills.

Bruce Mollinson of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, who examined it, said he had no idea what it was but hazarded a guess that it was a monstrous ray-like animal that lived deep in subterranean caverns off Tasmania.

The authors claim that other globster corpses have since been washed up on the Australian coast, some of them as big as houses.

A diver in the South Pacific is believed to be the only person to have seen a live globster. He described it as a great black mass, about an acre in extent, which rose up out of a chasm. The globster devoured a shark by "absorbing" it into its body.

However, others define Globsters as mysterious pieces of meat that wash up onto shore or are sometimes caught in an unfortunate person's net. Their common feature is that they are normally very badly decomposed and are normally described as boneless. According to the Guiness Book of Animal Facts and Feats, the unlikely basking shark is probably the cause of about 90% of all of the globster cases. The shark has peculiar gill arches which almost go completely around. When it decomposes, the arches fall off and the area between the head and the rest of the body looks like a plesiosaurian neck. This state of the shark's decomposition is normally adressed as the "pseudoplesiosaur" state. Since all of the bones in the shark's body are made out of cartilage, this gives rise to the impression that there are no bones in the body. Normally the skull retains it's shape since it is the hardest or densest cartilage in the body. Apparently no two globsters look exactly alike, some are more blob like than others. With the recent beaching of another globster off Chile, it is now known that Sperm Whales can form blob shaped, boneless, masses as well. There are people who describe all of these globsters are a sort of cryptid species, but this is rather improbably since none of them look exactly the same at all. The fact that they are all in a state of advanced decomposition also hints that they are naturally modified. No "fresh" globster has ever been found, and it is likely that they never will be. However, some may still turn out to be the carcasses of a sort of Giant Octopus.

Have a look at Strangemag's Globster Gallery

Finally, here’s a picture of an Angler Fish just for the sake of it.

And some Angler Fish recipes.

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The (ex-Sugababe) Siobhan Donaghy publicity machine cranks up another gear. Read why she thinks she is "turning into a scummy girl" and if you’d like to judge whether it’s true or not watch the video for the new single Twist of Fate which is linked from the bottom of the page. (I haven’t seen it yet so I can’t comment. I have, however, seen the new Sugababes video which is a pretty poor video for a below average song, but it does feature the girls wearing thigh-high leather boots and includes gratuitous Mutya footage if you like to see women with talons that could slice your neck if you don’t please them. Worth a look.)

Nice line up on Channel 4’s Outside strand tonight, if you like films about Geisha, Rent Boys, American Vampires, Contacting the Dead or the Mountains of Wales (what’s that doing in there?) that is. The one that will be of particular interest to Slim is "Goths Make Better Lovers" (link will only work today) at 01:15 which could give you an insight into the mind (like you need it) of your black clothed, hypochondriac, chain smoking, BO infested, work partner you struggle to understand so much. (Note: I don’t have a problem with Goths, Goth girls in particular are hot, which is why I’m going to watch that film, but the ex-college referred to above is a disgrace to the race)

Labels: Sugababes

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This will probably only be of interest to Popcorn, and maybe anyone else I went to school with who reads this (Raz?). In wont bother explaining, just click here.

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So, the Smoking Gun riders got mailed around the office and the Nine Inch Nails rider ended up in the inbox of someone from our San Francisco office who has toured with NIN. Apparently that rider is the real deal, and was defended as not that bad in comparison with some of the competition. The "Two (2) Boxes of Corn Starch (VERY IMPORTANT)" is for throwing on themselves to give the impression of being dead (of course!). It was defended as normal practice to put some crazy stuff on your rider just to make sure that people read it. If you don’t spell something out precisely, you get shit, and you probably won’t realise that something’s missing/not up to standard, until it’s too late. The classic "No red M&Ms" is used as a simple check, you get to the gig, you look at the M&Ms, if there aren’t any red ones you can relax knowing that everything you asked for is supplied, if there are red ones, you go through the check list of the things you really want. This can back fire if you don’t explain your priorities. In light of this, from now on Gusset’s rider will simply say:
1. Toffee
2. One million pounds in used ten pound notes, without any notes with a 3 in the serial number.
That should sort the men from the boys.

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The Independent reveals how to set up a chat room for £50: “Plenty of free programs can be found with a search engine, internet domain names can be registered and plenty of bandwidth can be bought in preparation for a popular service. Then you simply wait for refugees from former providers such as AOL and MSN to start rolling in.” Hmm, well researched figure there then. 12 year old Vannessa adds: "It's not just paedophiles who use chatrooms. It's other people too."


If you though Gusset’s rider policy of “book us and we can travel to wherever you want to see us, entirely at your own expense, and put us up in luxury accommodation (four star minimum), and feed us expensive food, and provide booze, and cigs, and prostitutes, and drugs” was on the extreme side (as well as a complete lie, we’ll play anywhere for toffee) have a look at this lot: Beeb story. The Smoking Gun.

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Chris Cunningham DVD available for pre-order. Release date is 28 Oct.

Bong-Ra video. (May not be suitable for work)

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