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• Life In Plastic, It’s Fantastic

  
  Worth Doing Badly — Authority: 123
  Mattel are bringing out a new range of Barbies in time for the Christmas market. Athlone Barbie: comes with a rainmac and a set of sandbags. You put Barbie, in her box, in the bath, pile the sandbags around and then turn on the water. You then wait to see how long it takes her to be flooded out. As an optional ...
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• Dragons’ Den, No 1: Totally Crackers

  
  Worth Doing Badly — Authority: 123
  (Dragons’ Den is a programme on BBC in which people with business ideas pitch for investment in front of a group of five rich people, the so-called Dragons. This short series of posts (very short at the moment, this is the only idea I’ve got so far) tells of episodes which didn’t make the air). ...
  1 week ago

• Beware the Nigerian Landlord Scam

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  Perpetuating his countrys unfortunate association with internet scams, a Nigerian man has turned to a new source for ill-gotten money: home renters. No tall tales of fake Nigerian royalty or bogus inheritances this time; the latest scam simply solicits deposit and rent money from unsuspecting renters. The catch? The ...
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• Slower, Lower, Frailer

  
  Worth Doing Badly — Authority: 123
  Changes are being made to the Olympic Stadium in London ahead of the 2012 games. A ninth lane is being added to the running track, so that any Irish athletes who do not qualify for the final will be allowed to run anyway. Panic-stricken Olympic Council members, fearful of Irish protests whenever things don’t go ...
  1 week ago

• Old Testament False Prophecy

  
  Dear Canonist — Authority: 103
  A Vision of a New JerusalemThe good news is that I finished the proposal for my trip to Korea!  The bad news is that I still have 2 journal articles to write and prepare 2-3 presentations for upcoming professional conferences!  Hopefully I will have time to devote to this blog again.In attempting that I want [...]
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• Summer’s Gone

  
  Worth Doing Badly — Authority: 123
  In a comment on a recent post, Laughykate in New Zealand asks: And while we’re talking about the weather, Tinman could you please send me the tracking number for summer? I need to carry out a track and trace as it appears that summer has not arrived as expected. Spring did, but I’m vaguely suspicious that ...
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• The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad, Fear Mongering, Profiling, Flight 297 Viral E-Mail

  
  Broadway Carl's Blog-O-Mania — Authority: 139
  I received a forwarded e-mail (the worst kind) today from a friends mother who usually sends me these kinds of e-mails in order to debunk them. Being as shes a reasonably liberal older person in a conservative town, shes more often than not a target for such fear mongering, smear e-mails. This one was a great read, ...
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• Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: The Week 44 Walmart Cube is Here

  
  Take Five a Day — Authority: 434
  For stores that have not gotten the ‘beautification’ plan of no pallets in the aisle, we present the Holiday Cube pallet of 2009 …(thanks for the great pics “Ltlloyd38.”)One side, the new “Night Skyline” Wally Hauler, Dinoco, Mack & Chick Hicks.(That better not be birdseed on the right!)A cavalcade ...
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• Rockin’ Book Review of Big Man: Real Life & Tall Tales

  
  Rock and Roll Guru — Authority: 140
  Big Man: Real Life & Tall Tales is a fantabulous book! If you’re part of the Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band tribe, you will absolutely love it. Enjoy my rockin’ review .
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• Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: TRU Sale Starts Sunday and Aye, There Be Hamsters …

  
  Take Five a Day — Authority: 434
  Starts Sunday …Mater Tall Tales Mega 2 for $6.99 & 25% off Stunt Playset.Also $20 off TRU Exclusive GeoTrax Set …And of course, a new hamster included in this City Playset … So, don’t plan on sleeping in on Sunday – and start pre-planning and pre-positioning your family, relatives and friends, it’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lets Mess With Texas

  
  Dojo Rat — Authority: 121
  Ahh-hahahahaha! Shocked! Shocked I tell you! Yesterday in the comments section of "Cute Hippie Chick Of The Month", I had another complaint. Somewhere in Texas is some misplaced Dojo Rat DNA running around by the name of Sensei Strange . The lad claims to be the spitting image of me, but thinner, stronger and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Mater The Greater 4-Packs Out

  
  Take Five a Day — Authority: 434
  These have just left the warehouse … NOT in huge quantities so it will take a few more days and weeks for it to filter out …Guess it’s time for another Mater Tall Tales 4-pack sale – who will it be?Thanks for the nice pics “IHM.”
  2 weeks ago

• Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: Ninja Track Set Out in UK

  
  Take Five a Day — Authority: 434
  “Branco C.” was kind enough to send us a huge slew of photos.He found it in the Disney Store UK (not available online yet in the UK). Some assembly required …From Mattel – NOT a Disney Store playset even though it’s available at the Disney Store UK.McQueen flies through the air, funneled onto the [...]
  2 weeks ago

• DEC. 6: CAVE COUNTRY + TALL TALES + TOMORROW’S TULIPS

  
  L.A. RECORD — Authority: 447
  
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• Recipe: Quince Jam (Morabba-ye Beh)

  
  Fearless Kitchen — Authority: 128
  Recipe Source: Shaida, Margaret.  The Legendary Cuisine of Persia .  Interlink Books, New York, 2002 p. 229 I couldnt believe how hard it was to find quinces!  In my head, theyre a fall staple, although they werent something that we ate when I was a kid.  Ive got a ton of recipes that call for quince - Greek ...
  2 weeks ago

• Jrodius’ Tall Tales: The Confrontation

  
  Going Guerilla — Authority: 120
  So stoked to do a new entry of one of my favorite on-going segments on Going Guerilla.  The one bit of consistent feedback I get from family and friends is that they like when I do personal entries, specifically my Tall Tales series .  If you are new to the blog, I suggest you go back and check these out, as I ...
  2 weeks ago

• Grateful Card

  
  Andrea Walford, Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, Sunny Stampin' Blog, Canada — Authority: 123
  Happy Thanksgiving!  Today I wanted to share with you a simple card about gratitude. I got the idea for the layout of this card from the October 2007 Cards magazine.  For the last few months life has been busy and stressful and sometimes it’s hard to “see the forest through the trees” – it’s easy for me ...
  3 weeks ago

• Mattel Disney Pixar Diecast CARS: CARS Blu Ray Gift Set $12.99 & Sears Kmart CARS

  
  Take Five a Day — Authority: 434
  At NOON Pacific Time TODAY until it sells out, the CARS Blu Ray Ultimate Set drops to $12.99.LINK HERE or click on graphic above.NOTE: Price will read $26.99 until noon PST (3 PM Eastern) and it will flip over to $12.99 until they sell out. Finally, a true Black Friday price And if you [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Man of Few Words

  
  Worth Doing Badly — Authority: 123
  Former Belgian Prime Minister Herman Von Rompuy is the surprise choice as the EU’s first President. One of the things he’s most famous for (well, to be honest, to only thing he’s even slightly famous for) is the fact that he writes haikus. A haiku is a poem with just 17 syllables, arranged 5, 7 and 5. ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Predictioneer’s Game: Using the Logic of Brazen Self-Interest to See and Shape the Future

  
  Through Your Body: — Authority: 124
  Bruce Bueno de Mesquita wants you to buy his book. He wants royalties and he wants fame. He wants the book to promote his consulting business. The text may well be full of self-promotional tall tales and calumny — unless the author calculated that the costs of dishonesty (potential intellectual disrepute) outweighed ...
  3 weeks ago

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