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that phrase alone would keep you up all night!
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here is the article!

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/quer ... t=Abstract

All I was looking for was info on this melatonin stuff, and I get golden hamsters!
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it's like the best deal ever! : )
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Now, if it had said 'Vorpal hamsters', I'd be checking myself into the loony bin.
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*blinks and rubs eyes* yeah, if you saw that phrase instead of golden hamster, why, you'd have to be mad....yes...
*runs*
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Thank goodness. We are all quite sane then.
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Sod all this. I'm watching Blackadder!
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What channel is that on? Or is it a dvd?
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"You see, the plan had one tiny flaw"
- "What was that then?"
"It was bollocks"

"There are three thigns you must know about the wise woman...one, she is wise! Two, she is a ..."
- "Woman?"
"You've been here before then, haven't you?"
- "No, just a wild stab in the dark..which is what you'll be getting if you don't take me to her."

"Macbeth!"
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Canoe. Pocket. Enough said.
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"What, you mean invite her to dinner with your mother on sundays?"
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Boom, boom, boom
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BBC 2, 10pm -- you missed it!

This must be the biliionth time I've watched it (series 2) and never tire! Can you believe it was 20 years ago! I was but barely a teen...
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What starts with 'come here' and ends with 'ouch'?
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I shall be acquiring the series soon via DVD. Quite handy having a sister working at HMV
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"Doomed to die on an unrealistic grassy knoll!"

"Soon you'll be as dead as that squirrel!"
"What squirrel?"
Kapoow
"Squeek!"

"I'd rather be a quack than a ducky! Good day!"
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I've not got the DVDs -- been meaning to buy the all-in-one set, but apparently the transfer is not very good, lots of compression artifacts.... :(

Oooh, I just broke 3800 posts -- still nearly a grand less than Barriewuuf though.
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ah, then we need to switch

"ah, i see you've got your patter all worked out then"
- "this is natural...its called wit..."

"so...'bob' "
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Compression artifacts? Well we have VHS...
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"I wrote in my diary on the way over. It simply says: Bugger."
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Eh? How do you get VHS on DVD? *Thwap* -- I'm knocking some sense into you youngsters!
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Onk! Just buy the video!
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Errrrr......... even a poorly compressed DVD is better quality than VHS; I already have them on tape. You is a bonkers. ;)
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Soooooooo.... what is the complaint?!
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i have all but one epiosde on video, i think and had the latter two on audio cassette...that's the sign of a good series...you can remmber all the visial gags perfectly, and the writing is the best part and caries to audio only!
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i thin khe thinks you thought that...
i think he...
i...

bah, off with your heads! nursie!
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I used to have an episode of Transformers: Robots in Disguise on audio
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lol ,the talkign books or the small books? me too
one i lived was one of the 'newer' galvatron/cyconus ones...cause there were like three times where the guy lapsed into a strange accent while doing a voice

like cyclonus went scottish for abot two seconds, and blitzkreig almost went russian on one word
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All I can remember is the tape! It was set in some tunnel. The book is but a distant memory. However I had a few of the models: starscreech, and yes, Optimus Prime!
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*Cough starscream cough*
*cough geek geek selie was right cough*

ooooh, i remember the tunnel one! yeah, they were digging a tunnel for some complex reason...or there was a railway...and a tunnel was being dug...and..stuff happened...and hound or one of the autobots did somethign sneaky with a train or soemthign to foil the decepticons

aaaaaaaah, great days...

damn, i never had original prime, did get starscream though...mm, transformalicious...
thye were great toys! i can't beleive i got rid of them all to make room in my room...*Sigh*
fair enough, by that time i was makign paper darts and tryign to knock them down
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