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	<title>OddThinking &#187; Heroic Failures</title>
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		<title>How I Lied to an Innocent Child</title>
		<link>http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/09/19/how-i-lied-to-an-innocent-child/</link>
		<comments>http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/09/19/how-i-lied-to-an-innocent-child/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julian</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Heroic Failures]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dear T-,

Thank you for your postcard. It was very nice to read it.

On Saturday, I helped to make a movie about monsters.]]></description>
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		<title>I Can&#8217;t See You, CUA</title>
		<link>http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/09/15/i-cant-see-you-cua/</link>
		<comments>http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/09/15/i-cant-see-you-cua/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julian</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Heroic Failures]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[banking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have wanted to complete my migration from CUA to Bendigo Bank for some time. In fact,  it was two-and-a-half years ago that I complained that my local Credit Union Australia (CUA) branch had closed, and that I was assessing Bendigo Bank as a replacement.
To close my CUA account, I think I have to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Escape from the Devil&#8217;s Doom</title>
		<link>http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/07/30/escape-from-the-devils-doom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/07/30/escape-from-the-devils-doom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julian</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Heroic Failures]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tribal Affiliation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[review]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[gaming]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In which the author reveals his age, and reviews an old electronic game.]]></description>
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		<title>Australian Parliament may harm your computer.</title>
		<link>http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/07/22/australian-parliament-may-harm-your-computer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/07/22/australian-parliament-may-harm-your-computer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julian</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Geek]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Heroic Failures]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Observation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[web]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I hope by the time you read this, the problem will be fixed, but embarrassingly, our parliament has been taken over by hackers - and a <a href="http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/tag/presidential-campaign/">full 6 months ahead of my plans</a>!]]></description>
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		<title>Worst. Psychic. Ever.</title>
		<link>http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2007/11/06/worst-psychic-ever/</link>
		<comments>http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2007/11/06/worst-psychic-ever/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:08:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julian</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Cathartic Rant]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Heroic Failures]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Story-Telling]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Thoughts from the Shower]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ghosts]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[psychic]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[racing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My psychic connection was almost spot on... and yet my psychic senses detect that some people are skeptical of my skills... they are thinking... wait, the message is coming through: WORST... PSYCHIC... EVER!]]></description>
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		<title>An Almost Modern Linguistic Phenomenon</title>
		<link>http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2007/11/06/an-almost-modern-linguistic-phenomenon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2007/11/06/an-almost-modern-linguistic-phenomenon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julian</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Heroic Failures]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Observation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[blogosphere]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[linguistics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to point out a new linguistic phenomenon out to the world.]]></description>
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		<title>Male Modle</title>
		<link>http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2007/10/21/male-modle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2007/10/21/male-modle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2007 12:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julian</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Based On A True Story]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Story-Telling]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[clown]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[costume]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[fashion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[performance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The poor kid was trying to be a gentleman and look in the opposite direction to the mass of perfectly-formed young female bodies each trying to get hurriedly changed from one swim-suit to another.

I thought this he was missing a great opportunity.]]></description>
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		<title>Cold-Reading By Proxy</title>
		<link>http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2007/09/18/cold-reading-by-proxy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2007/09/18/cold-reading-by-proxy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julian</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[story]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Oh no. How did I end up in another cold-reading situation?]]></description>
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		<title>Dag För Dag</title>
		<link>http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2007/07/10/dag-for-dag/</link>
		<comments>http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2007/07/10/dag-for-dag/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julian</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[sweden]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday, while looking for something else, I stumbled across a journal that I kept for six weeks in 1991. 

So, what did I discover about my twenty-year-old self?]]></description>
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		<title>Non-Smoking linked to Drinking</title>
		<link>http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2007/06/23/non-smoking-linked-to-drinking/</link>
		<comments>http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2007/06/23/non-smoking-linked-to-drinking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jun 2007 04:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julian</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Heroic Failures]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[My Father, Joe]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[prank]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My father, Joe, smoked cigarettes when he was younger, but he decided he wanted to give up.]]></description>
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