Month: September 2013
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Found GLCC5ZEV Jass @ Jammy
This checkin to GLCC5ZEV Jass @ Jammy reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found with fleeblewidget on the first day of our narrowboating holiday (riding Nerys out of Cambrian Cruisers). We spent the night moored up just a little further North-East of the cache, overlooking a broad and beautiful valley β¦
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Godzilla's Family Vlog Review - Episode 11 - Secret Bonus Review
My secret bonus segment to my review of Godzilla Huntley's Family Vlog ("IRL"), Episode 11.
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Godzilla's Family Vlog Review - Episode 11
My review for Episode 11 of Godzilla Huntley's Family Vlog, in which I mock Godzilla for what'll probably turn out to be a mental illness, and then I'll feel guilty. There's a secret bonus video to complement it.
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TIL that in 1916, a conman called Sir Edmund Backhouse, claiming to be working for the Chinese government, sold the UK six (non-existent) battleships and an (imaginary) flotilla-load of rifles.
[since originally being published on Reddit, the resource in question has been moved to http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-30513]
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RoΕia MontanΔ: the richest village you've never heard of. Until 94% of the gold they're sat on goes to Canada.
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Cosmo: Westeros Edition sex tip: grab your man, pull him close, whisper "the Lannisters send their regards" and stab him in the heart.
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TIL that "Lawnchair" Larry Walters, who flew to 16,000 feet using weather balloons tied to a lawn chair in 1982, shot himself eleven years later.
LARRY WALTERS FOUND FAME AT 16.000 feet. On July 2,1982, the 33-year-old truck driver rigged 42 helium-filled weather balloons to a Sears lawn chair in San Pedro, Calif., and, as friends looked on in wondrous support, lifted off. The sight of Walters floating in the sky shocked pilots, who radioed perplexed local air-traffic controllers. Walters β¦
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Godzilla's Family Vlog Review - Episode 10
In my review of the tenth episode of Godzilla Huntley's Family Vlog, I try to educate the family in the nature of acronyms and in US history. Who knew that vlog-reviews could be so educational?
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Godzilla's Family Vlog Review - Episode 9
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Godzilla's Family Vlog Review - Episode 8
This video makes reference to my dislike of Monopoly, which you can read about here.
Also available on YouTube.