Month: December 2001
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Much weirdness on my American TV shows! First Buffy cuts her hair, and now Dawson and Jen are together and happy? (If that means Joey and Pacey hook up again, I’m gonna need somebody in the States with a VCR to capture the moment.)
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Lord of the Rings kicked ass. But you knew I’d say that, right? Snookums and I have to go see it again as soon as we get to Sydney, since we missed the first three minutes of the movie. We were out buying popcorn and ice cream, and the thing started without any commercials or…
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Nigel Hawthorne died. That sucks.
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Boxing Day BetrayalThe deviousness of the Snook family is not to be underestimated. Knowing that I have had a lifelong aversion to seafood, they contrived to make me eat this against my will today. I’m as shocked as you are. It all started when we sat down to a lovely, light post-Christmas lunch. We had…
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Robbie and Nicole got the UK Christmas number one! Good for them.
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Next come the locusts.Seriously, am I jinxed or what? Every time I visit Rodd’s parents, some plague of devastation hits New South Wales. Last time it was the floods, this time it’s the bush fires. If I risk it a third time everyone will probably come down with boils. Sheesh. Anyway, so yeah, it’s been…
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Judging from the current responses to my new poll, it looks like you guys aren’t big fans of the novelty Christmas single. Which is too bad, because some of them rock.
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Sunburn. Yep, it’s three days til Christmas and yours truly got a sunburn while traipsing about on the beach today. I’m sure you’re all radiating sympathy… NOT. 🙂 Anyhoo, on Thursday the Snook and I set off for an eight-hour train journey up the coast to his parents’ place. Total nightmare. We arrived at Sydney…
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Over the past year I’ve been noticing a new advertising trend. Let’s see if you can spot it: In a UK Ferraro Rocher commercial, a man at a swanky dinner party asks his wife to go get the chocolates from the kitchen. She goes in but wants to keep all the chocs for herself, so…
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Fifty-two things they do better in America. Not. The guy who wrote this is obviously a Brit whose only time in the U.S. has been on holiday. As someone who’s actually LIVED in both countries for a significant amount of time, here are some of my corrections: 2. Senior citizen reductions at cinemas and in…