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		<title>The SS Man</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy @ Yellow Swordfish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[88 year old Heinrich Boere, a Dutchman of Dutch-German origins, is currently on trial in Germany for the murder of three Dutchmen during the Second World War. Boere clearly sided with the German side of his family and joined the SS serving in occupied Holland. When the war was over, he admitted the killings to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Are We All Still Here?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy @ Yellow Swordfish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s start out by saying that I know smoking is an unhealthy thing to do. I accept that. 
I happened to be in the eye department of the local hospital recently. Stuck to the wall of the waiting area was a poster that simply said in large letters &#8216;Smoking Causes Blindness&#8217;.
The cigarette packet in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Noose Around The Neck</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy @ Yellow Swordfish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the pleasure, during most of my working life, to be able to wear more casual clothes but there were a few years in the middle there where I was expected to dress daily in a suit, clean, uncrumpled shirt, tie and shiny and unscuffed shoes. In other words, the standard business uniform.
It is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve Been A Very Naughty Boy</title>
		<link>http://www.yellowswordfish.com/816/ive-been-a-very-naughty-boy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy @ Yellow Swordfish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have had my knuckles rapped by none other than my wife. She feels that in that last piece I got carried away and have caused offence to the worlds catholics. She gave me a good telling off I can tell you! She particularly felt that calling for the citizens of Vatican City to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Vatican And Friday October 13th 1307</title>
		<link>http://www.yellowswordfish.com/810/the-vatican-and-friday-october-13th-1307/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy @ Yellow Swordfish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a promotional &#8216;ad&#8217; seen often on BBC News 24 where the Vatican correspondent makes the statement that the Vatican &#8216;works in centuries not in years&#8217; and if that is indeed the case, then the current papal incumbent will not have been at all surprised to have just been served with a lawsuit pertaining [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Humble Ampersand</title>
		<link>http://www.yellowswordfish.com/733/the-humble-ampersand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 11:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy @ Yellow Swordfish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cos I never &#8216;ad no proper educashion I am often fasin.. facinat&#8230; intrested in fings that I find everyone else already knows all about.
If any of the teachers in my school knew any Latin they were either Catholic or had strolled into the building by mistake and were being held captive by a headmaster with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When History Becomes History</title>
		<link>http://www.yellowswordfish.com/620/when-history-becomes-history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 10:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy @ Yellow Swordfish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have always believed that there should be at least two school subjects that are mandatory and that continue through to &#8216;A&#8217; level. The first, of course, is English. Literacy rates in this country are appalling enough but the number of people who can read but never do is frightening. Add to the pot the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Dennis Said To Maggie</title>
		<link>http://www.yellowswordfish.com/606/what-dennis-said-to-maggie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:33:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy @ Yellow Swordfish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ex-ambassador to the USA, Christopher Meyer, tells a great story in his book DC Confidential about a dinner he hosted for the recently deposed Prime Mimister, Margaret Thatcher. At one point in the dinner she stood and started to lecture forth on some political issue and Dennis turned to her and said, &#8216;enough woman, enough! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Date With History</title>
		<link>http://www.yellowswordfish.com/544/a-date-with-history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2007 19:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy @ Yellow Swordfish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My wife, for reasons I have not been privy to, decided last week to try and grow and raise a Date palm using a pit from a shop-bought dried date. Unless global warming hurries up a bit I very much doubt she expects to be in a position to harvest fruit in future years so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Honest Abe</title>
		<link>http://www.yellowswordfish.com/500/honest-abe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yellowswordfish.com/500/honest-abe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2006 21:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy @ Yellow Swordfish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not being an American, Abraham Lincoln didn&#8217;t get much coverage in my schooling so it is no surprise that I didn&#8217;t really know too much about him. Well, I knew he was tall and not really handsome. I knew he was assassinated. And I knew he was the US President during their civil war. Oh [...]]]></description>
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