Ian Sealy's Blog http://www.iansealy.com/blog Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:41:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Which Superhero Are You? http://www.iansealy.com/blog/2006/12/30/which-superhero-are-you/ http://www.iansealy.com/blog/2006/12/30/which-superhero-are-you/#comments Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:40:36 +0000 Ian Sealy http://www.iansealy.com/blog/?p=33 Just came across “Which Superhero Are You?” on Techcrunch. Apparently, I’m 70% like Spider-Man. I’d rather have been Cyclops, even though he’s an idiot in the films.

Here are my results:

You are Spider-Man

Spider-Man
70%
Superman
60%
Green Lantern
55%
Robin
40%
Catwoman
40%
Hulk
40%
Supergirl
33%
The Flash
30%
Wonder Woman
28%
Batman
25%
Iron Man
10%
You are intelligent, witty,
a bit geeky and have great
power and responsibility.

Anyway, who are you?

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“You can make a record in 1955 and have been getting royalties. Suddenly they’re gone.”

Suddenly? Since when has a fifty year warning counted as sudden?!

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Random annoying bloke sitting next to us in the pub: “Andy Gray is really biased.”

Me: “Well he hasn’t really got any reason to be biased towards Man Utd.”

Annoying bloke: “He’s biased towards everyone.”

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Do you know what they call it when they’re called to an old lady who has fallen and can’t get back up?

Nan down!

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A: The squirrel has Champions League experience.

]]> http://www.iansealy.com/blog/2006/04/21/squirrel-regis/feed/ 2 Got The Keys http://www.iansealy.com/blog/2006/04/14/got-the-keys/ http://www.iansealy.com/blog/2006/04/14/got-the-keys/#comments Fri, 14 Apr 2006 07:50:17 +0000 Ian Sealy http://www.iansealy.com/blog/2006/04/14/got-the-keys/ We completed on our new house yesterday and we’ve got the keys. There were no suprises when we had a look round for the first time in three months (except nice ones, like a bottle of wine and two pints of milk).

We want to decorate one room and our tenancy at Midland Cottages doesn’t finish until the end of the month, so we won’t be moving for a couple of weeks. But if anyone wants the new address then let us know.

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http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1772402.html

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REAL MADRID president Fernando Martin delivered a Champions League warning to Arsenal when he roared: “My players will eat you alive!”

But porky star Ronaldo already looked full to the brim when he waddled into London yesterday.

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So could someone invent biodegradable balloons please.

Time passes…

Turns out they already have. And you can buy everything you need for a balloon race for a few hundred quid. So how come I’ve still never found one?

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(This isn’t going to make much sense if the BBC change their photo.)

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