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Back to: Poor Clio; or, back to: Past history
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12.16.2000/14:41 |
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Oh, yeah...whew! |
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12.16.2000/14:34 |
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Hail to Shaq! This is better than a hundred slam dunks... |
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12.16.2000/14:28 |
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The mice can play while the cat's on strike! |
| 12.16.2000/14:23 |
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| Cook meat before giving it to your cats or dogs! |
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12.16.2000/12:00 |
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If you have been puzzling over what to feed your
hedgehog or prairie dog, help is here. |
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12.15.2000/09:08 |
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Help for tyro cross-dressers. |
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| 12.15.2000/09:05 |
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| Sorry, not this year, I'm afraid. |
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12.15.2000/08:55 |
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In this rather enjoyable story about President Clinton's (almost) day off, he
mentions not one, but two disaster scenarios for the sugar cane fields around my town! Can you find them both? |
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12.14.2000/09:20 |
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Full of sound and fury, and signifying... what? |
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12.13.2000/09:38 |
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What magnificent chompers! |
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12.12.2000/09:25 |
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More gourmet dog biscuits. |
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12.12.2000/09:10 |
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The good news is that there is a vegetable that can
help stave off cancer. The bad news is that it's broccoli. |
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| 12.11.2000/19:38 |
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| Even if you don't care to read this story thoroughly,
don't miss the last two paragraphs. |
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12.11.2000/16:15 |
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For the second time today, just as I thought. |
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12.11.2000/08:30 |
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Just as I thought. |
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12.10.2000/18:30 |
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Though this article about fuel cells discusses their use as a source of
residential power, it did make me wonder how viable a fuel cell powered automobile might be. |
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12.9.2000/14:00 |
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Even if you don't plan to play Truth or Dare with Madonna,
she might wind up playing it with you! |
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12.9.2000/11:50 |
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Does size matter? |
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| How much would you pay? |
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12.9.2000/09:55 |
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We watched Régis Wargnier's East/West a few nights ago. This
is a post-war tale about Russian expatriates returning to their homeland in 1946, unprepared for the bitter and paranoid Stalinist regime.
Oleg Menshikov plays a doctor whose wife (a remarkably toothy Sandrine Bonnaire) is a French national who wants back to France almost the moment
she sniffs the Russian soil. A lefty and regal French actress, played by the regal French actress Catherine Deneuve, is petitioned for help.
This is as spine-tingling a Russian cold war film as I have ever seen, without the need for clever spies or verging nuclear war, etc.
In addition to the struggle for escape, there is an insightful portrayal of the intertwining of ideology and personal ambition in the Stalinist era.
We have, by the way, rather been enjoying our DVD player. The movies really do look better than those played on a VHS machine, and though the rental selection
still is somewhat limited locally, the purchase price compares favorably to a night at the movies; I am not averse to buying a DVD of a film I think
I'd enjoy watching more than once, or would be likely to lend or otherwise share with friends. |
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12.9.2000/09:35 |
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Save (more of the) Petrified Forest. |
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12.8.2000/07:50 |
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There may be a name on your gift list who will purr over this! |
| 12.8.2000/07:45 |
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| SpeedDating. |
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12.7.2000/09:20 |
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The Saskatchewan Reindeer Association. |
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