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This Week:
* QUIZ - Is this a pipe?
* DRUGS - Gove finally takes them for you
* BALLS - Photos of Hitler's balls in 4D

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B3ta email 719 - 28th Jun 2019

Read this issue whilst googling "Thatcher nudes":
http://b3ta.com/newsletter/issue719

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What do you get if you cross a French conspiracy
theorist with an omelette?
A flat oeuf.

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: WHAT B3TA PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DOING THIS WEEK
  Other than making suspicious jam

  * FIND THE PIPE -  Wildyles writes, "Click the
  pipes to find out which one is the pipe, can
  you find the pipe? Pipe."
https://wildishandco.co.uk/projects/pipes 

  * GOVE ON DRUGS - Wwedemason writes, "Another
  one I've made for JOE. I would've never started
  making these vids, if I hadn't got really
  stoned one afternoon whilst watching Jingle All
  The Way. 20 years ago."
https://b3ta.com/links/Because_Gove_Got_High

  * HIGGS ON THE BEATLES - B3ta favourite John
  Higgs has written a fab article pointing out
  how pivotal Yesterday was for the Beatles.
  We're also looking forward to hearing Higgs on
  the EggPod soon.
https://thequietus.com/articles/26699-the-beatles-...

  * FOOD BLOG -  Colmcq2 writes, "A review of
  hospital food because I was there."
https://myfoodeeblog.com/2019/06/09/a-critical-app... 

  * SHARDCORE MAKES ALGORITHM ENID BLYTON - This
  is a bit arty. Be warned. Art this way.
https://twitter.com/erocdrahs/status/1144234948095...  

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Reading the egg section on Wikipedia produced a
good fact that amused us:

When chickens age and can no longer produce eggs
it's called...

Wait for it...

THE HENOPAUSE!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henopause 

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: SITES IN BRIEF
  Flat, slow, clicky video

  * JEREMY CUNT COMPILATION - every time someone
  in the media has accidentally called Jeremy a
  cunt. Stick a beat on it and it's a dance
  number 1 waiting to happen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch

  * HOUR LONG MATTHEW SMITH YOUTUBE DOC - OK, not
  exactly the production quality we'd really want
  but the Matthew Smith story has it all. It's
  the rock star dream of making it young, losing
  it to substances and then a lifetime of "what
  if" for the fans. 
https://b3ta.com/links/From_Manic_Miner_to_Jet_Set...

  * INSTALLATION FAKER - prank site where you set
  your colleagues screens to install Windows 98
  like some kind of retro cunt.
https://updatefaker.com/ 

  * COCK BLOCK CHAIN  - We've never bothered to
  learn much about blockchain, but someone has
  drawn a cock on it. Er...  Hooray?
https://www.itsnicethat.com/news/first-art-exhibit...

  * REJECTED EMOJIS - some dry laughs here.
https://rejectedemojis.tumblr.com/

  * TELETEXT SHIT ART - Remember when kids sent
  their drawings into Teletext and some poor
  fucker had to turn them into blocky pixel art?
  Some amusing dross collected here, including a
  Simbra clearly thinking "kill me."
http://teletextart.co.uk/teletext-kids-drawings-co...

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BILL: Welcome to my TED talk.
TED:  Whoa!

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: FOLLOW UPS
  What happened next
  
  * Joel Veitch writes, "Here's a podcast which
  talks about the origins of the Quiznos
  Spongmonkeys. I talked to them a while ago but
  it came out yesterday, which is good timing
  given the recent surge of Spongmonkery. Well
  worth a listen if you're interested in this
  stuff."
https://rework.fm/we-love-the-subs/

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If you understand "watching the stars" to be a
euphemism for death then "Kelly Watch The Stars"
is a fey ambient pop song about the Blair
administration murdering weapons expert David
Kelly.

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: FRIDAY GAME
  It's probably not Friday but it's back
  
  Monkeon got in touch to tell us about this
  quirky breakout clone and writes, "It's buggy,
  pretty unplayable, and got mostly downvotes on
  Reddit until I assume the author deleted his
  post. As a concept, however, I rather like
  this."
https://brickception.xyz/ 

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John Lennon writing to claim on his insurance: 

Dear Prudential, 
Are you coming out to pay?

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: IMAGE CHALLENGE UPDATE

  Last week we did Spielberg:
https://b3ta.com/challenge/spielberg/popular/

  This week it's classical art mash-ups.
https://b3ta.com/challenge/artmashup/popular

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Film sequels names ala Alien -> Aliens

Titanics
Batmen
Jurassic Parks
The Godfathers
Schindler's Lists

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: STAR IN NEXT WEEKS' ISSUE
  Free ideas for some cheap inspiration

  * TORY ARSEHOLES - photoshop every single Tory
  with an arse replacing their mouth. Stick it on
  Amazon books. Legally free photos here:
https://beta.parliament.uk/houses/1AFu55Hs/parties...

  * A BOT THAT SHOUTS PARKLIFE - to any verbose
  tweet. Then a bot that replies "MODERN LIFE IS
  RUBBISH!" to anyone replying "PARKLIFE!" to a
  verbose tweet.

  * SANDWICH TUBE - Would watch an 11 part
  YouTube series where someone makes each of
  these sandwiches, in turn, eats them and goes
  deep into the sociological history of it all.
https://twitter.com/robnitm/status/861446245583400...

  * DRAGONS' DEN PITCH BOT - "It's like Uber but
  for wanking" "I'm out" etc etc

  Send your shit to BBC TV centre, Woodlane etc
https://b3ta.com/mailus/

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Celebs with nouns as surnames:

Kate Bush
Michael Fish
Jimmy Nail
John Nettles
Oliver Stone
Nick Drake
Dave Hill
Cheryl Crow
Bill Gates

You get the idea. Bored now.

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: PATREON THANKS

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How to ruin one of the best Beatles songs,
Something. The bit that goes "You're asking me
will my love grow. I don't know, I don't know."
Imagine that's George Harrison apologising for
not getting an erection. There, that's in your
head as well as ours.

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: YAY WE HAVE A NEW(ISH) NEWSLETTER SPONSOR
  Mediamasters Podcast

  Paul Blanchard has got in touch to sponsor the
  newsletter "My primary purpose is to see you
  prosper! Love your work" and also promote his
  podcast. There's lots of big media names on it
  like Sir Trevor McDonald and Alan Rusbridger,
  so get stuck in:
http://www.mediamasters.fm/

  And if YOU also want to be a big sponsor then
  fill "company sponsorship" in on the old
  Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/b3ta

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Let's fund the Royal Family by each of us paying
a Royal Family Licence, and if we don't want to
pay say £5 per household per year, we don't get
to watch Trooping The Colour / Royal Wedding on
TV. Deal?

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: TOP TIP
  Want to spend less time on Facebook? Simply
  befriend people whose every action sends you
  into a downward spiral of quivering envy and
  paralysing feelings of your own inadequacy as a
  human being. (markreynolds95)

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What's the difference between the the song "There
She Goes" the one-time leader of the German Nazi
party? Nothing, both were a hit, la.


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