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EvilBastard wrote:Just got an email from our Dir IT, so I'm pretty confident that it's not spamalicious. Microsoft [ptooie] has a scheme that allows employees of something called Volume Licensing Software Assurance customers (generally big companies who buy lots of licenses for MS products) to get their paws on MS Office 2007 for $20.

For anyone looking for the suite (and it is stressed that under no circumstances should you be copying the DVD for a friend, loved one, child, student, unemployed person), if you work for a large outfit, this might be useful.
It's true. My dad used to work for the MOD, he got a copy of Office 2007 for a few quid, because it's what he had at work.
Naturally, he didn't notice my installing it on my own laptop. ;)

You need to spend a good 15 minutes actually working out where the f**k they've moved everything about to, but it's pretty good once you get used to it. The equation-builder was a f**king godsend to me for notes in Physics lessons. :)
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My face and palm have never met at such speed before.
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80% of English bank notes contaminated with drugs

Fifteen million destroyed every year because of health fears?! :eek: :(

A moment's silence, please...
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timsinister wrote:80% of English bank notes contaminated with drugs

Fifteen million destroyed every year because of health fears?! :eek: :(

A moment's silence, please...
Shall we split it and run the risk..? :lol:
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Any risk is worth it! :twisted:
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Ouch
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hamp ... 535064.stm
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http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breaki ... 8819c.html
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I'll never sleep on a bus again. :eek:
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f**king hell! :eek:
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Water on Mars.
Not another of Izzy's jokes :D

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The suspect connected to a homcide on a Greyhound bus briefly sits in the driver's seat of the bus while police try to talk to him last night.
Why are you letting him sit there?! :eek:
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The suspect connected to a homcide on a Greyhound bus briefly sits in the driver's seat of the bus while police try to talk to him last night.
That part of the story is inaccurate. They apprehended the killer as he was trying to jump out of the window. They did not attempt to interview the guy until late yesterday.
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Giant dog turd wreaks havoc at Swiss museum
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/12/3
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Israel 'proposes West Bank deal'

"OK, guys, here's what we're going to do - we're going to keep all our stuff, even the stuff that's been built illegally. We're also going to take some more of your stuff, but in return for taking more of your stuff we're going to give you less stuff in the middle of bloody nowhere where it hardly ever rains, it's hotter than satan's buttcrack, and where we test our weapons and dump our trash. Any questions?"

Oh, those Israelis do make me laugh :lol:
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mine's funnier :lol:
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James Blast wrote:mine's funnier :lol:
True, but what's funnier is the comment that wasn't included in the news article which came from the local mayor or burgomeister who announced that he would conduct a house-to-house search in order to find out whose dog it was, and expected Bernese citizens to report the person if they knew who it was.

This is Switzerland, after all...
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That turd was in Antwerp last year. Forgot to go see it though, but there sure was a debate about it :lol:
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sout ... 578266.stm

I laughed at the headline anyway.
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Aye thengyew! :lol:
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..in a re-enactment of scenes from the movie Cloverfield. :|
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/staf ... 588105.stm

sounds like the guy should be given a stiff drink, not an 8 year jail term. one less scum walking the earth, as far as i can tell.
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Yupp. There should be some reward for each downed Nazi or ultranationalist.
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For those of you who liked that there Mornington Crescent thing
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sad, always seemed an amiable character and I never knew he was the originator of such comedy gold

Kensington High St.

it's how he would've wanted it :|
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He produced Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Yes I know it says that in the BBC linky.

Sad. :(
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