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"My life as a disco queen ..." "Melbourne Life - by Fi ('on her way to the UK')

From the Web 1.0 days I bring you  The Forum . To preserve them for posterity as Geocities can no longer be found but also it's fun to re-read some of them. ----- 28th September, 2001 Hi all, Well, despite the fact that there are security vehicles lined up along the hilltops surrounding it, and everyone in San Francisco is convinced of it, the Golden Gate Bridge has not yet been bombed. It's amazing being here at this time ... tourists have abandoned this country, American Airlines is offering round trips from SF to NYC for US$100, every front yard, car window, office building, and human being sports an American flag, and despite the fact that the people here try to maintain a degree of dignity and unity, a tangible paranoia appears to have set in. I have heard a thousand "true stories" about where the next plane will crash, and every person in every bar knows someone who knows someone who knows where the Osama bin Laden affiliates are hanging out. Right here in San F

The Forum: 'What's a frump to say' by Muffy

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The Forum: Sophisticated cultural Wellington

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"The Man Who Knew Too Little" "See This!" - by Andrew Llewellyn (New Zealand)

From the Web 1.0 days I bring you  The Forum . To preserve them for posterity as Geocities can no longer be found but also it's fun to re-read some of them. ----- 24th September, 2001 The Man Who Knew Too Little USA, 1997 Director: Jon Amiel With: Bill Murray, Joanne Whalley, Alfred Molina, Peter Gallagher. Running Time: 1 hour 33 minutes Tagline: The International Intelligence community is about to get a whole lot less intelligent. Murray is Wallace Ritchie, an American paying a surprise to his successful businessman brother in London. Trouble is, he turns up on the very night his brother James (Gallagher) is hosting a huge business dinner for a bunch of German would-be clients. And knowing his brother is an embarrassing idiot, Gallagher arranges for Murray to take part in The Theatre of Life. A 3.5 hour theatre-participation production that allows you to be the action hero in your own James Bond adventure. Complications ensue when Wallace misses his Theatre of Life instructions,

"Builders bum's" and "The art of coming second" "A Welshman Living In England - by Rob Burge (England, UK)

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