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posted by [personal profile] bugshaw at 10:30am on 03/06/2006 under
Simon pointed me at this astonishing tale of hamster escape in The Guardian. The scrapped ovens go along the conveyor belt, towards the rotating knives...
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posted by [identity profile] fjm.livejournal.com at 09:38am on 03/06/2006
This was my favourite:

a hamster exercise ball... a hamster called Roly was found pedalling his along the hard shoulder of the M6 in Birmingham after falling from a car.

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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 09:56am on 03/06/2006
I saw a clip of that on a "Britain's Worst Drivers" programme or something similar. The hamster was not the worst driver on the road!
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posted by [identity profile] bibliofile.livejournal.com at 03:36pm on 03/06/2006
Yes!
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 09:55am on 03/06/2006
Every time I go to Cute Overload I stay for an hour. Must be strong...

Ah yes, I think this happened a few years ago when I was living in Cheltenham. He is a very handsome fellow, though.
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posted by [identity profile] ffutures.livejournal.com at 10:29am on 03/06/2006
Copied to [livejournal.com profile] uk_pets
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posted by [identity profile] del-c.livejournal.com at 11:10am on 03/06/2006
The Grauniad's style department shames itself again. If you're going to be cute and use the scientific name for an animal species, italicize it. It's not just a good idea, it's the law as far as scientists are concerned.
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posted by [identity profile] nmg.livejournal.com at 12:51pm on 03/06/2006
The best part of the article was the illustration that the Grauniad's graphic designers had knocked up to show the stages of processing that the hamster went through - if you've not seen it, I'll try and get a photo of it online...
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posted by [identity profile] stevegreen.livejournal.com at 02:52pm on 03/06/2006
I was just about to mention that: great little comic strip.
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 03:56pm on 03/06/2006
! I'd love to see that.
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