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BERNARD GUSSET -
AFTERTHOUGHTS (Updated... now and then)
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URI GELLER AND THE WORLD CUP Uri Geller who has managed to make a very handsome living from one trick he perfected, that of bending spoons "...before your very eyes" tried to influence the outcome of the world cup and the Argentina match, in particular using the power of his mind and encouraging the rest of us to do the same. England won 1-0 and no doubt he would claim the victory as his own. In fact Uri the co-operation of the nation in this matter is the one thing you could never hope to achieve as most if not all the population are way ahead of you. As they didn't get to the final must we therefore assume that you failed - or would you say that at that point, we didn't try hard enough? There's no wonder Michael Jackson is a pal. After all you're just the sort of crackpot he goes for i.e. schemes and ideas like oxygen tents to make him live longer, terminal plastic surgery - which by the way makes him look the spit of the Goons Bluebottle in the Telegoons series of the 1960s (1950s?) and of course his pension for monkeys in his bed.... yadda yadda yadda, etcetera ectetera need we go on?!
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SUNNY D-TOX - kool kids drink it at their peril Sunny Delight bares
about as much relationship to a refreshing, thirst quenching drink
as freshly bottled urine. The wholesome image portrayed in the television
advertising is - we think - a load of hooey! We tried this concoction
- New Orange Outburst - and found it... well frankly disgusting.
It left a chemical aftertaste like toxic waste that lingered for
well over half an hour and the flavour itself was synthetic and
unpleasant with very little similarity to orange outbursting or
otherwise and none at all to fresh orange juice. In the end it called
for good old fashioned water to rinse out the mouth. If you have
read the fine print on the side of the label, you will have noticed
the ingredients which are as follows. Check out the links! Vitamin
enriched Citrus beverage with sweeteners. Ingredients: Water, fruit
juice 15% (Orange, Lime, Mandarin and Grapefruit juice), Citric
acid, Vegetable oil, Preservative : Polyphosphate, Modified Starch,
Natural Flavourings, Vitamin C, Thickener: Guar Gum, Preservative:
Potassium Sorbate, Sweeteners:
Acesulfame
K and Aspartame,
Thickeners: Xanthan Gum and Gellan Gum, Beta-Carotene (Pro-Vitamin
A), Vitamin B6, Thiamine (Vitamin B1) Contains a source of Phenylalanine
(...Intake of phenylalanine by people with penylketonuria (PKU)
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BOO-HOO POOH! Disney recently sought an injunction on toy bears manufactured in China and imported into Sweden that apparently bore a striking resemblance to Winnie-the-Pooh. They want the 25,000 bears destroyed which they insist are illegal replicas because of their trade mark red shirt and that they projected "the same attitude and facial expression...". They may bear a striking resemblance to the original Pooh Bear which coincidentally also can be said of Disney's romanticised, homogenised and repackaged Pooh. However, I don't imagine that A.A.Milne ever envisaged "Crud the dust monster" or Christopher Robin with an American accent clad in trainers and sweatshirt wearing a baseball cap. |
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