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    <title>Foreign Parts </title>
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    <issued>2012-05-16T00:30:15+00:00</issued>
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    <created>2012-05-16T00:30:15Z</created>
    <summary type="text/plain">Hello. I&apos;m abroad now till the end of May. Henrietta is kindly coming to stay and look after Bolly. See you in June....</summary>
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      <![CDATA[<p>Hello. I'm abroad now till the end of May. Henrietta is kindly coming to stay and look after Bolly. See you in June. </p>]]>
      
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    <title>Cute Baby Animal of the Week</title>
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    <issued>2012-05-14T12:27:24+00:00</issued>
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    <created>2012-05-14T12:27:24Z</created>
    <summary type="text/plain"> Yes - it&apos;s a baby anteater....</summary>
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<p>Yes - it's a baby anteater.<br />
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    <title>Edward Lear&apos;s 200th Birthday</title>
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    <issued>2012-05-12T17:48:22+00:00</issued>
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    <created>2012-05-12T17:48:22Z</created>
    <summary type="text/plain">To celebrate Edward Lear&apos;s bicentenary, here&apos;s Bolly the pussycat with her favourite owl. As you can see, the owl is clearly saying - Oh lovely Pussy! Oh Pussy my love, What a beautiful Pussy you are, you are, What a...</summary>
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      <![CDATA[<p>To celebrate Edward Lear's bicentenary, here's Bolly the pussycat with her favourite owl. </p>

<p>As you can see, the owl is clearly saying - </p>

<p>Oh lovely Pussy! Oh Pussy my love,<br />
What a beautiful Pussy you are, you are,<br />
What a beautiful Pussy you are!</p>

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    <title>Owls That Look Like Cats</title>
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    <issued>2012-05-12T17:41:48+00:00</issued>
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    <created>2012-05-12T17:41:48Z</created>
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    <issued>2012-05-12T17:41:12+00:00</issued>
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    <created>2012-05-12T17:41:12Z</created>
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    <issued>2012-05-12T17:40:33+00:00</issued>
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    <created>2012-05-12T17:40:33Z</created>
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    <issued>2012-05-12T17:39:27+00:00</issued>
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    <created>2012-05-12T17:39:27Z</created>
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    <issued>2012-05-12T17:38:28+00:00</issued>
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    <created>2012-05-12T17:38:28Z</created>
    <summary type="text/plain"> OK - I admit it ... this one looks more like a rabbit...</summary>
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<p><i>OK - I admit it ... this one looks more like a rabbit</i></p>]]>
      
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    <title>Cats That Look Like Owls</title>
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    <issued>2012-05-12T17:34:46+00:00</issued>
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    <created>2012-05-12T17:34:46Z</created>
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    <issued>2012-05-12T17:33:52+00:00</issued>
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    <issued>2012-05-12T17:33:01+00:00</issued>
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    <issued>2012-05-12T17:32:11+00:00</issued>
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    <issued>2012-05-12T17:31:27+00:00</issued>
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    <title>Supercalifragilisticexpialiplagiaristic™</title>
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    <issued>2012-05-11T21:01:18+00:00</issued>
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    <summary type="text/plain"> I was amused to read in the Boston Globe that there was once a ridiculous copyright dispute over the word supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Thankfully, um-diddle-diddle-um-diddleye, um-diddle-diddle-um-diddleye was spared. That could have got nasty. The Sherman brothers, who wrote the Mary Poppins...</summary>
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<p>I was amused to read in the Boston Globe that there was once a ridiculous copyright dispute over the word <i>supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.</i> </p>

<p>Thankfully, <i>um-diddle-diddle-um-diddleye, um-diddle-diddle-um-diddleye</i> was spared. That could have got nasty. </p>

<p>The Sherman brothers, who wrote the Mary Poppins version in the 1960s, swore they first heard the word as children, at Camp Equinunk in Pennsylvania in 1937. </p>

<p>But Gloria Parker had published <i>Supercalafajalistickespeealadojus</i> as far back as 1949, and tried to sue Disney for copyright infringement to the tune of 12 million dollars. Judge Wilfred Feinberg declared that 'variants of this tongue twister' had been in use since the 1930s. In other words, it was a meme. </p>

<p>Who cares? Surely we all 'plagiarise' by accident at times. I’ve done it myself – had an 'original' idea, then realised I had it (or wrote or broadcast about it) years ago, or someone else did.</p>

<p>Let's stop fighting over words and ideas and start sharing them. </p>

<p><a href="http://www.pirateparty.org.uk">Pirate Party UK - interesting stuff</a></p>]]>
      
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    <issued>2012-05-11T17:26:34+00:00</issued>
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    <created>2012-05-11T17:26:34Z</created>
    <summary type="text/plain"> This classic headline, in the Sun in 2000, refers to Inverness Caledonian Thistle beating Celtic (football teams, if you&apos;re not sporty). But, rather like Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, it has an interesting provenance. Could it be that the Sun headline writer had...</summary>
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<p>This classic headline, in the Sun in 2000, refers to Inverness Caledonian Thistle beating Celtic (football teams, if you're not sporty). </p>

<p>But, rather like Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, it has an interesting provenance. </p>

<p>Could it be that the Sun headline writer had seen the Liverpool Echo's headline <b>Super Cally Goes Ballistic, QPR Atrocious</b>, way back in the 1970s?   </p>]]>
      
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