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January 01, 2006
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Happy New Year from Samizdata.net
Perry de Havilland (London)  Antics & parties

The Dissident Frogman has infiltrated Samizdata.net HQ, snuck into the wine cellar and photographed the target for tonight...

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Woo!


Posted by ahc at January 1, 2006 01:31 AM

A well stocked house!


Posted by Albion at January 1, 2006 04:10 AM

Perry and the Frogman drank all that by themselves? I don't believe it. Who were the other willing helpers?


Posted by Scott Wickstein at January 1, 2006 04:29 AM

So you're the ones responsible for the run on Champagne!


Posted by Colin at January 1, 2006 11:36 AM

I helped out. Hic!


Posted by Johnathan Pearce at January 1, 2006 01:21 PM

Who was the cheapskate who only brought half a bot?


Posted by Verity at January 1, 2006 04:50 PM

OT: Did any of you see the mention of Samizdata here

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4564142.stm

as an anarchist site?


Posted by Colin at January 1, 2006 05:13 PM

Hmmm ... written by a Stephen Mulvey. This needs to be reported over at Biased BBC.

I don't remember any discussions of this logo.


Posted by Verity at January 1, 2006 06:20 PM

I just posted it as a complaint at Biased-BBC on a thread near the top initiated by Natalie, which begins with "Adloyada". This blog allows OT comments, so if anyone else wants to write in, this is where my complaint is up.


Posted by Verity at January 1, 2006 06:25 PM

Lucky you.
We had a Château La Garde, appelation Pessac-Léognan contrôlée, 1999, Gironde. There are still a few good things in France, and bottles are safer than cars on new year eve in Paris.


Posted by Alice at January 1, 2006 09:32 PM

Bonne année, Alice! Nice to hear from you!


Posted by Verity at January 2, 2006 02:20 AM

To call samizdatists anarchist is revealing. How old, or rather how collectivist is that journalist Stephen Mulvey? Anarchic is the present management of our taxes and social funds, increasing our debts and our - occidental - demographic deficit, and leading us to chaos, therefore almost all our politicians, and journalists are anarchists, (and artists too in France because they live on subsidies).

"Après moi le déluge","After me the flood," words of Madam de Pompadour and not, as often thought, the words of Louis, her lover, the next-to-last. A prophecy of the French Revolution


Posted by Alice at January 2, 2006 06:25 AM

Bonne année" to Verity (I still read your comments) and to all the" samizdatists.


Posted by Alice at January 2, 2006 06:28 AM

Did I spy a bottle of Babycham on the left? Product of the Showerings' vineyard?


Posted by Andrew Kinsman at January 2, 2006 11:23 AM

The 'babycham' was actually a bottle of this:

(click for bigger image)


Posted by Perry de Havilland at January 2, 2006 12:26 PM

Merci, Alice! I didn't know that Mme de Pompadour was the one who said "Aprés moi, le deluge!"


Posted by Verity at January 2, 2006 12:50 PM

I trust you are all aware that alcohol will be banned from all public places by 2009, and from sale for private consumption from 2015. Don't you know that it's bad for you? ;-)


Posted by Raw Carrot at January 5, 2006 02:36 AM
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