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• Name: Rosie
• IP address: 91.107.212.165
• Date/time: Wednesday 4th February 2009 20:02:45
• Comment: he looks like a child used to clean chimneys!!

• Name: Rosie
• IP address: 91.105.171.214
• Date/time: Friday 6th February 2009 19:31:58
• Comment: by the way, why do you say it was M**** who takes certain photos? are you showing off her skills or distancing yourself from them? and if R****** was a pregnant woman his coal-eating would be called pica.

• Name: jonath
• IP address: 192.168.0.22
• Date/time: Friday 6th February 2009 23:23:29
• Comment: That is a fantastic question (those are fantastic questions) and I wonder why no-one has ever asked it/them before. The diplomat says, "Oh yes, I'm showing off her skills, definitely," however . . . the truth is a bit of both, but I'm distancing myself in the sense that I simply had little to do with the taking of the pictures and that is all; it's a distancing that has neither positive nor negative connotations. I thought 'pica' was a word that sounded a bit Italian and could very easily be a fairly commonplace type-face, or perhaps something to do with units of measurement (god sake, why don't I just do a Google search?), so I'll have to revise this definition to encompass pregnant, coal-eating women . . . I had no idea. All good stuff.

• Name: Fomer Line Manager
• IP address: 193.113.57.167
• Date/time: Monday 16th February 2009 09:53:41
• Comment: I thought a pica was a small mouse-type animal capable of making a very loud 'EEEEK' sound...

• Name: jonath
• IP address: 192.168.0.22
• Date/time: Wednesday 18th February 2009 22:25:53
• Comment: Yes, that'll do. Any other definitions of pica? I looked up pica on Wikipedia (where else?) and R****** doesn't even need to be pregnant or female (help - tautology) to have pica, apparently. Word root: Latin for magpie. Moving on . . .

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