Month: October 1999
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Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #34:
Go into Burger King, and ask for an nuclear-powered intercontinental ballistic duck-burger, with medium fries and a Sprite. Get rather upset when they refuse to serve a nuclear-powered intercontinental ballistic duck-burger. Ask them what kind of establishment they are, anyway, … -
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Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #33:
Consider a Pot Noodle to be an adequate substitute for breakfast, after you discover that your bread has been stolen and your milk supports more cultures than the United Nations.
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Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #32:
Go on a tour of the lesser-spotted pubs. End up in a club. Finish drinking at 1am. Still have a hangover twelve hours later. Still have a headache twenty hours later. Realise to your horror that there are a lot … -
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Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #31:
Pass your first exam... with a worldsmashing score of 90%. Your lecturer, apparantly, during a pre-test, scored 95%. The pass level was 36%. Happy bunny? You bet!
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Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #30:
Gather together a werewolf and an irishwoman, and, together, climb an unlit hill with a treachorous unmarked cliff, in an unfamiliar nearby town, in the darkness of the night, during a storm, and watch fireworks while clinging to a hundred-year-old … -
Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #29:
Stay in and do some work.
Scary but true - this theoretically means that I haven't done this until now. Eek.
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Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #28:
Escape from your hall's "Punch Party", and go to a bonfire instead, because you *know* that if you start drinking vast amounts of free sub-cocktail you'll just *keep* drinking and you've got to be up before 9:00am the following morning … -
Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #27:
(1) What with being excessivley busy, and a network failure last weekend, fail to get out a "Cool Things". Feel the need to apologise to everybody (SORRY!), and give them three "Cool Things" to help make up for it.
(2) Be … -
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Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #26:
Go out and get pissed with the second years from your floor. Bloody hell, those guys can drink about (originally read "drinkabout") four times their weight in lager. As a result I'm probably going to have to (originally read "tpo") … -
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Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #25:
Start a collection of 20p pieces, for use in the laundry. My wallet's side pocket now contains 16 20p peices. Combined with a few pound coins, that'll keep me laundered (ooh-err) for at least two weeks. =o)
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Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #24:
Take a pillow to a lecture. =o)
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Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #23:
Leave a club, and, in a drunken stupor, decide that it's a sound and logical idea to take £120 out ot a cash machine, because it'll save you from having to do it later. Realise this tommorow morning, and replace … -
Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #22:
Realise, to your horror, that it's not physically possible to exist on a diet of Pot Noodles alone.
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Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #21:
Desperatley try to find a reason not to get a 'professional' domain name (e.g. www.avapoet.com), and fail. Panic, and write to your current service provider, asking questions which you're sure they'll answer unfavourabley, to save yourself from the urge to … -
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Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #19:
Get very drunk, and fall asleep up a tree. Wake up at sometime after 3:00am, in the rain, and wonder where the fuck you are, before climbing down and going to bed... Realise that a search party had been organised …