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Getting your gun off

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For my 40 birthday present my brother in law Stew took me and a couple of mates for my first experience of clay pigeon shooting. The ear plugs aren't particularly attractive - but very necessary. I shot 19 out of 50 clays. Apparently that is "rubbish". It was a cracking day out though. Maybe these toffs aren't so stupid after all.

Life begins at forty

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I still remember being 16. I quite distinctly recall my clear understanding that anyone over the age of 30 was utterly pointless and totally incomprehensible. In fact Logan's Run should have been a documentary rather than a film. Myself and my best mates Matt and Phill used to spend hours plotting the downfall of the fascist Thatcher government, being proud Yorkshiremen supporting the Miners Strike (despite not really knowing what it was about), worrying about our untimely demise by atomic bomb due to the Cold War and generally setting the world to rights. However, perhaps the principal focus of our attention was the general desire to beat the system and resist the corrupt and cynical grasp of "The Man" . OK, perhaps our principal focus was actually on girls and our seemingly endless quest to gain the attentions of one - but after that it was beating "The Man". Our future plans mainly revolved around our inevitable successful career as rock stars (our ban...

Doh!

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You may have heard that the Simpsons are making a little filum . Well as you can see I have managed to get a part. I also managed to get a part for Boo the cat. OK. Not really. But this is fun. Create your own yellow fella simpsonizeme.com . Sadly none of this stuff appears to work in Firefox . Tsk. That really isn't good enough for a show that constantly lambasts monopoly and the casual abuse of power.