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Hey Jim… Remember when you came over to ours, and you told us about moneysavingexpert.com? - Well since then Debb periodically checks up to see what new tips are out and about.. Anyway for xmas she decided to buy herself the book "Thrifty Ways For Modern Days"..

You planted the seed mate, and this morning weve been flicking through it and there are actually some good tips in there.. One for you to check out if you havent already.

Well guys, hope everyone is enjoying their xmas holiday.. Ive been getting my ass kicked by thirteen year olds on Xbox Live on my brand new xbox360!!! - I had to do a double take when I unwrapped the bad boy as it was a complete suprise! – Debb says that im spoilt but I don’t know where she’s getting that from!

Anyway, ive got three games with it: Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter; Call of Duty 3 and Gears of War.. Ive tested and watched the intros of Ghost Recon and call of duty but I have been exclusivly playing gears since its been unwrapped and boy am I hooked. The graphics and scenery in the game are the bomb, and the game play is as smooth as silk. I starting off playing a single campaign but the other night I thought id dip my toe into the live experience to see what’s what! – Its been fun being a newbie and these kids are shit hot but ive got a lot of practice ahead of me before I move up the ranks.  

Anyway check out my new rig:

Oh, I also got some socks for xmas too, but I haven’t got around to trying those on yet!

Merry Christmas guys,  hope you all have a good time.  Remember to check back here to say hello whilst your off!

Heres something to keep you going…

you may have to F5 a few times, that link is very very busy.

BoingBoing often links to johnkstuff.blogspot.com, The blog of Ren and Stimpy Creator John Kricfalusi (which is reason enough to pay a visit), and he is currently hosting a storyboard from a never-created episode, called Life Sucks.  It has the proper audio, and put together in a pretty good video layout, if that makes sense.  Anyway, Go check it out, they will be posting more up over the coming days.

http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2006/12/ren-and-stimpy-in-life-sucks-animatic.html

New bumper has arrived also got my wings so all ready for the body shop……. This should bring my TT up to date as thought the design is a little dated.

On completion of the work will look like this but with the above wings on. 

The world’s foremost authority on wasps is walking down the street when he sees a record in the window of a charity shop "Wasp noises from around the world". Intrigued, he goes into the shop and asks if he can listen to it.

"Certainly," says the shop assistant and pops it onto his turntable. After listening to the first track for a while, the world’s foremost authority on wasps is a bit confused. "I don’t recognize any of these  noises, and I’m the world’s foremost authority on wasps! Can you play the next track please?"

The assistant obliges and skips the needle onto the next track, after a while the world’s foremost authority on wasps is still confused…..

"No, I still don’t recognize any of these wasps. Can you try the next track?"

The assistant skips the needle on, and the world’s foremost authority on wasps listens for a little while longer before shaking his head.

"It’s no good. I just don’t recognize any of these wasps" The assistant peers at the label of the record and says……

"Oh, I’m terribly sorry. I was playing the bee side"

I was just perusing the Webstats for WinningStyle.co.uk, and have made a strange discovery.

Firstly, the good news– hits are up since the new front end.  We have had more visitors already in December than we had in the whole of November. 

We’ve had 18 visitors directly from Search engines (15 of which have been Googling) not a lot, but as we get more content up, that number should increase.  Funily enough, most of those hits have been from people searching for the phrase "Random".  GP2X and Pirated are also in the list of most popular keywords.

I also chuckled when I noticed one of the key phrases that landed someone here was "John Vs Jack".  Come on man, you don’t need Google to tell you Bauer would kick Mcleans ass. (Unless, of course, this is a Lost reference, in which case I’m not so sure).

But its not just search engines, apparently we’ve had 35 hits directly from other websites.

So,  where are these people coming from?

Well, three words:   Porno, Porno, Porno!!

I’m guessing that by linking Pornotube and Yutuvu in the user links, I’ve created a bit of a magnet for all the one handed typers…  I’m not at work, so I can’t see EXACTLY where people are coming from.

Anyway,  heres some of the more interesting stats for your perusal…

http://winningstyle.co.uk/stats/decstat.htm

http://www.winningstyle.co.uk/FlippyTemp/DSTipage010061213.pdf

I was checking out the Daily Star today, and it looks like the Nintendo Wii, of all consoles, is the cause of a number of violent incidents in the household.

It appears that people dancing round the living room waving their controllers around are so engrosed, they’re injuring themselves and their spouses! 

Injuries have occured from the obvious waving around of the controller, but avid sweaty handed gamers are suffering when the controllers slide from their soggy paws, and have been known to smash windows and TV’s, as well as teeth.

Check out the article here

Ruthlessly ripped off from the NY Times via Boing Boing

OK, this one’s driving me crazy. This brain-teaser is ripping around the Internet, plus I actually overheard it THREE TIMES in airport conversations on a recent trip to Canada.

Here’s how I found it presented at http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=34 8452:

“Imagine a plane is sitting on a massive conveyor belt, as wide and as long as a runway. The conveyer belt is designed to exactly match the speed of the wheels, moving in the opposite direction. Can the plane take off?

“I say no, because the plane will not move relative the the ground and air, and thus, very little air will flow over the wings. However, other people are convinced that since the wheels of a plane are free spinning, and not powered by the engines, and the engines provide thrust against the air, that somehow that makes a difference and air will flow over the wing.”

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