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Archive > August 2007

The anarchic hand

While I was away having a low carbon adventure in Europe (I’ve decided never to fly again) my travel buddies told me about…..the anarchic hand.  This condition is a brain injury related syndrome where one of your hands performs actions against your will.  Here are some of my favourite examples
 

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Changing names

Did anyone hear the story last week of a chap in New Zealand who said that if 100,000 people join his Facebook group, he will call his new born child Spiderpig? It turns out it was all a big scam, causing disappointment to thousands all over the world, and no doubt relief to his [...]

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Blind Romance

Have you ever had a really terrible blind date? You’ve trusted your friend’s opinion and ended up with someone whose main area of interest is carp fishing (no offence to any recycling anglers out there). Well, I know I have. My most memorable being the person I met on a bus - [...]

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Are you experienced?

Rachel is away sunning herself in Hungary- she has taken an extravaganza train trip and so, dear Laundry readers, you are stuck with a little whitter from Harry, Gemma and Sam (Sam Smith that is- he shares his name with the respected pub-chain)
We have the very lovely volunteer Sam working for us at the moment, [...]

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Pheremones

Whoa, blimey, who knew that Laundry customers felt so strongly about scones?? And Patrick, the angry Irish barman – funny, but problemo when it comes to Guinness??  Guinness makes me feel a bit irony, not sarcastic, I mean full of iron, have only drank it on seriously peculiar occasions.
So what else have we been talking [...]

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