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A 27 year-old science-fiction fan has made socio-political history by being the first unmarried man to concur with his girlfriend that his collection of action figures and limited edition figurines are in fact just ‘stupid toys’.

Nigel Shortland, a Bristol-based I.T. support co-ordinator, first entered this long-running debate after taking his girlfriend Tracy Ball, 25, to the annual sci-fi memorabilia fair at Birmingham’s NEC. ‘When she returned from the burger stall she was less than impressed to find I’d spent forty quid on Battlestar Galactica original series action figure,’ he recalls. ‘The fact that it was a Commander Adama in purple robes instead of the usual blue didn’t seem to cut much ice with her at all.’

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Posted: Nov 27th, 2009
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Posted: Nov 26th, 2009
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Furious debate has broken out in caveman society over whether creationists will exist in the future.

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Posted: Nov 26th, 2009
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In the first case of its kind a 40 year old man has married himself in a small ceremony in Weston-super-mare and now intends to spend the rest of his life devoted to making himself the happiest man in the world.

Tony Clarke, a lifelong egomaniac was happily married for 18 years but always suspected something was wrong. ‘Over the years I started spending more time alone and when I caught my reflection I began to hold my gaze for a little longer each time before coquettishly turning away, I would spend hours talking to myself and found I had so much in common with me. Inevitably it wasn’t long before I started seeing myself behind my wife’s back and it quickly escalated into a torrid affair’.

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Posted: Nov 26th, 2009
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Following the recent death of the famous ‘Equalizer’, Edward Woodward, police are looking into possible turf wars with the A-Team in the lucrative ‘problem where no-one else can help’ market.

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Posted: Nov 25th, 2009
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