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Cool Tools: The Best Magazine Articles Ever

Cool Tools: The Best Magazine Articles Ever
http://www.kk.org/cooltools/the-best-magazi.php

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Thoughtful

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Sarah & Jens’ wedding

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And the winner is…

DARREN GAVIGAN!! with a manly 62 points. Well done Estuary boy.

1 Estuary England Darren Gavigan 62
2 DK Willy DK 60
3= On the ball city Simon Barnes 59
3= Peter Reid’s Love Child Andrew Hartland 59
3= Magic Sponge David Crook 59
6= Terry’s Tackle Andy Young 57
6= Hand of Dog Tim Donnelly Smith 57
8= anybody but england Gordon “Scotland was robbed” Crawford 53
8= Dylan’s Cosmic Sister Kate Williamson 53
10= The Andrews Family Ethan and Finn Andrews 52
10= Lorem Ipsum Jon D 52
12= it is now jim chambers 50
12= TwoHalves Tom Laidlaw 50
12= Golden ‘Berry’ Balls Berry 50
15 hand of job david hickson 49
16= Scotland’s Revenge Andrew Robb 48
16= Danish Bacon Nik Goodman 48
18 The Italian Stallion Eddie Vassallo 47
19= El Pringle Keith Pringle 45
19= Roger Milla Matthew Woodeson 45
21 Rooney Who? Chris Boulter 44
22 Twoshedz Twoshedz 43
23= Totalfootball Nick T 42
23= Guinness Original Martin Borrett 42
25= SoccerBowl XIX Paul Revy 41
25= It’s been a long road Paul Conroy 41
27 carlosfandango Carl Mesner Lyons 40
28 roar times three Rory 39
29 Outlaw Alex 36
30 The Wizard of Dribble Stephen “Stan” Matthews 34
31 Jules ‘Rimmer’ Dan McGrath 32
32 World Cup Widow Sally Mesner Lyons 31
ahem keegan’s fro Deana 28

I caught up with Darren earlier today and presented him with the 2010 Prediction Game trophy

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A late surge from the boy Dazza pipped long term leader DK who was said to be gutted. He couldn’t be here in person, but sent this photo

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Thanks for playing. Hope you enjoyed it.

Final, final predictions and discussion http://notepad.cc/worldcupfinal

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More garden flowers

taken with a better camera this time

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Caution…

The final results of the prediction game will be revealed before the match tomorrow.

Meanwhile, football means stats nerdery. Hurray!

There was a tiebreaker question as to how many yellow/red cards there will be in the tournament, and the spread of answers is shown in the chart below.

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As you can see, the range went as low as 9 (faith in humanity) to over 400 (world weary).

The current actual count, with two games to go (I suppose we have to acknowledge today’s 3rd/4th playoff) is 259.

Although there is nothing in it other than a prize of shallow vanity, the prediction game entrants in with a shout of getting nearest to the tiebreaker are:

243 Matthew Woodeson
249 DK
252 david hickson

Unless there is 10 card bloodbath, David Hickson will officially be the prediction game’s very own Mystic Meg

Meanwhile, predictions for tomorrow? Click here. btw, this notepad.cc is very good for live chat if anyone fancies having it open during the game
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It’s so easy to hate

We’ll have a media frenzy this weekend about Raoul Moat being a ‘monster’. It’s comforting to reduce complex situations to a pantomime, but it’s more decent to have compassion than hate.

The murders are truly dreadful and will blight lives for decades. Yet it needn’t detract from solemnly respecting those tragedies to at least consider that this is an sad story in every direction.

This snippet from the BBC report gives a glimpse into the background. He ended up a scary, murderous man, yet you can hear the long-damaged little boy inside:

A guest-house owner, who did not want to be named, told the BBC: “He actually said, the one thing that sticks in my mind, ‘I haven’t got a  dad’… and he also said that, ‘nobody cares about me.'”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/mobile/uk/10583839.stm

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Lovely garden flowers

All the lovely Sally’s work

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Petal power

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Fourth of July BBQ

Ceremonial dumping of tea in symbolic Boston Harbour

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Hot dog

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Still brilliant

I saw this first time round and I have never been as excited about a movie since. The ten year old me ran out of the Huddersfield ABC jabbing and ducking. Looks a bit cheesey now, but only because it was so iconic that it’s been parodied heavily. 

Win Rocky, win!