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Cameron to celebrate victory with Bullingdon-style trashing of UK

it's only moneyAs the Conservatives become increasingly confident of election success it has emerged that David Cameron plans to celebrate victory with ‘one all-mighty bash’. The celebrations will follow the format of Oxford University’s elite Bullingdon Club’s infamous dinners which involved the comprehensive trashing of restaurants, rooms of new club members and, on a good night, a significant part of the City of Oxford’s infrastructure.

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Posted: May 3rd, 2010
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Microsoft’s Paper Clip giving tips on writing resignation letters

Microsoft Word has upgraded its animated writing assistant ‘Clippie’ to assist those resigning as Members of Parliament, football managers or poetry professors. The word processing software automatically recognizes the phrase ‘I feel that under the circumstance…’ at which point the familiar paperclip pops up and says ‘I see you are writing a resignation letter. Would you like some help appearing contrite and yet hinting that the fault lies elsewhere?’

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Posted: May 26th, 2009
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