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The Shortlist for Week Ending 17th August 08
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August 16th, 2008

The next Post Of The Week will be announced on Sunday evening.
Please note that nominations for next week cannot be accepted until then.

If YOU would like to vote on this week’s shortlist and be part of the decision making for the Post of the Week this week, please pick your 5 favourite posts from the list and award them 5 points for the favourite, down to 1 for the 5th favourite and mail your votes to peacharse@yahoo.com no later than 6pm on Sunday night.

All nominated posts are IN this week!

1) Bandit Talks - Nominated by Bob with Tex Mexican “This weekend I was at a cookout down along the South Shore. The South Shore is very different from the North: We have contrasting malls, culture and floral. However, somethings remain the same.

Just as when I got infuriated when my Dad would screw up Bette Midler’s name by calling her Betty Middle-er, today’s children suffer the same mispronunciations.”

2) Bluewitch - Nominated by Bob with Some Perspective Please “Everywhere you go there seem to be people warbling on about the Olympics and China’s human rights record.

I think they’re being rather short-sighted.

I have a few questions for these people.

In answering them, I would ask them to bear in mind that many people from different countries, cultures, religions, and political regimes, have quite different understandings, beliefs, and expectations. “

3) The Hell Hole - Nominated by Daisy with Google is Not Necessarily Your Friend “So I walked into the bathroom and two women are standing there, using the counter underneath the mirror to busily fill out a bunch of Fed Ex airbills. They had a big stack of airbills they were working on, with two or three completed ones already set off to the side. Now, the counter in the ladies’ room seemed like an odd choice of workspace, but this is what makes it really weird.”

4) Pandemian - Nominated by Mike - with Negative Feedback “Debbie, Apoplectic Ebay Buyer
where is the dress? i paid for it on friday and its not here

Jack, Put-Upon Ebay Seller
Your item was posted last Saturday. Please allow another day or two for delivery; first class post can be terribly slow sometimes, anything up to a week in my experience. Please get in touch if it still hasn’t arrived by the weekend. “

5) Todger Talk - Nominated by Mike with We Deal With Love Now on a More Personal Basis “When you get to a certain age, you get used to seeing your heroes dropping off. I heard about Barry White snuffing it at a sex show in Amsterdam, when Never Gonna Give You Up came on while some couple were going at it hammer and tong on a revolving stage, and all the English punters around me started clucking and saying “Eeh, in’t it a shame about Barry?” and at the end, the bloke withdrew, stood up and saluted the air in tribute, which was nice. He would have liked that.”

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