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Nick Cooper's Random Blog: July 2008

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Nick Cooper's Random Blog. The London Underground, old TV programmes, Things to Come. 50 metre swimming pools, and anything else I feel like wittering on about. Tuesday, 22 July 2008. The errors of academia - Part 1. Although H.G. Wells and most of his work have, of course, been subject to a great deal of scholarly interest over the decades, the same cannot be said of either Things to Come. In 1984 - does provide a few tantalising, though oblique, references. Volume 4 includes some sporadic communication...

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Nick Cooper's Random Blog: October 2008

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Nick Cooper's Random Blog. The London Underground, old TV programmes, Things to Come. 50 metre swimming pools, and anything else I feel like wittering on about. Friday, 17 October 2008. Of course, we all deplore shoplifters, but a couple of times lately I've fallen foul of some of the measures intended to confound them, rather than legitimate consumers. Fast forward to last week, when a late birthday present from a friend was the Blu-Ray disc of Aliens Versus Predator. Of course, all this is really a bit...

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Nick Cooper's Random Blog: May 2009

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Nick Cooper's Random Blog. The London Underground, old TV programmes, Things to Come. 50 metre swimming pools, and anything else I feel like wittering on about. Saturday, 30 May 2009. Although it's fairly well known that what exists now of the film Things to Come. Essentially the shooting script from mid-1935 - following the little girl's video history lesson, part of this segment plays out thus:. 1) Oswald Cabal meets with Space Gun engineers; introduced to Maurice Passworthy. The surviving footage and ...

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Nick Cooper's Random Blog: September 2008

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Nick Cooper's Random Blog. The London Underground, old TV programmes, Things to Come. 50 metre swimming pools, and anything else I feel like wittering on about. Friday, 26 September 2008. With the exception of The Secret Diary of a Call Girl. Aka Billie de Jour. I usually avoid ITV2 like the plague, but a small photo in the Radio Times. Alerted me to a Tube scene in the channel's new sitcom No Heroics. Going to arrive, so he walks off, just as a PA announcement informs passengers that, "all services are ...

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Nick Cooper's Random Blog: August 2008

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Nick Cooper's Random Blog. The London Underground, old TV programmes, Things to Come. 50 metre swimming pools, and anything else I feel like wittering on about. Wednesday, 13 August 2008. During my daily commute from north to south-east London this morning, I read in the Metro. Freesheet that Australia's Olympics chief John Coates's ungracious response. S comment that, "Britain has 22 Olympic-sized pools, compared with Australia's 47," would be bad enough if it were true, but sadly it's not. This makes t...

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Nick Cooper's Random Blog: December 2008

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Nick Cooper's Random Blog. The London Underground, old TV programmes, Things to Come. 50 metre swimming pools, and anything else I feel like wittering on about. Friday, 19 December 2008. What goes around comes around. In this day and age, it seems very easy to let cynicism rule our lives, but occasionally we get a reminder that human nature can be so much better. BBC News. Posted by Nick Cooper at 14:00:00. Commuters and other aliens. An advert later the same year featured a rather novel solution to trai...

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Nick Cooper's Random Blog: March 2009

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Nick Cooper's Random Blog. The London Underground, old TV programmes, Things to Come. 50 metre swimming pools, and anything else I feel like wittering on about. Wednesday, 18 March 2009. Occasionally a news story comes along that doesn't quite ring true, and for me one example was - from the start - the claim by Buster Martin to be the country's oldest worker, famously refusing to take a day off on his 100th birthday. Sequels to this included beating off a gang of muggers. 1925 London, Wellington Barracks.