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Tick Achieve: How to Get Stuff Done
I am not advocating a trainspotterish anally retentive approach (yes, the word
trainspotterish is in the dictionary). In fact, the emphasis should be on the speed
and efficiency with which all the tasks can be done, thereby liberating youto do all
...
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Visions of England: Class and Culture in Contemporary Cinema
This sense of omnipotence can be seen in the novels of Nick Hornby where the '
trainspotterish list' functions not only as the symbol of eccentric and 'self-involved'
cultural consumption, but is also presented as the definitive and essential ...
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Mary Douglas: An Intellectual Biography
Not just for thesereasons, or becauseshehas lived with it for so long,or even on
account of heradvice and support, this book isdedicated toher: whileI have been
writing it, the noun 'anorak' and adjective 'trainspotterish' have entered the ...
Besides which, I'm a great fan of George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman books,
and the trainspotterish notes at the end are one of my favourite things about them
. But this is not a comparison I wish to stress too far — as some, less careful ...
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Underground, Overground: A Passenger's History of the Tube
Ihavea trainspotterish DVD about the line withthe usualnasally, numbercrunching
commentary, butwhen one of the line engineersshows the presenter the amount
of seepage coming in,someone offscreen(the cameraman, perhaps) exclaims ...
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The Fox In the Cupboard: A Memoir
For years when he was very small he had been obsessed in a thoroughly
trainspotterish way with Thomas the Tank Engine and his bickering collection of
crosspatch railway chums. If I were to rent this cottage we could lie in bed at
nights and ...
Iknow that it is desperately trainspotterish tohave heroes, but here have we a
man whose lyrics arepurepoetry, whose melodies area match for anything
dreamed up by Elgaror Chopin and whose liveact is, quite simply, thebest inthe
world.
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Reading Audiences: Young People and the Media
Although he admits to being 'obsessive', even 'trainspotterish' in wanting to know
even what the 'creative team had for breakfast', he would hate to be thought a '
typical fan'. In fact, it's almost that he doesn't like the idea of there being other ...
Sorry, can you hear me yawning? Gore fans froth at the nipple at this kind of stuff
but it all seems vaguely trainspotterish to me. In fact, Dead Set's zombies breach
one of these conventions by being able to run. They can't climb or swim though, ...
But what makes Fat Lace truly British is its trainspotterish obsession with hip-hop
minutiae. Each issue unearths a lost classic (i.e., Rated X), buries a dud (Larry
Larr), and name checks more phony rappers than you can shake a mic at — all, ...
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Winning is overrated: How loss set me free
The thing I learned was that there were quite a few different DHCs inside me, my crazy 16-year-old, my inner Big Daddy, my trainspotterish nerd - and others ... «New Zealand Herald, 五月 15»
Record Store Day: High Fidelity shows today's music-lovers what …
That's because I belong to the same balding, greying, slightly-foxed generation of trainspotterish musos and obsessive list-makers as the author Nick Hornby ... «Telegraph.co.uk, 四月 15»
Helen Macdonald: Our springs grow emptier as the birdsong falls …
It seemed more like a trainspotterish game of one-upmanship than something meaningful about the season. I was wrong. I didn't know how useful such records ... «New Statesman, 四月 15»
PG Wodehouse remains a Premier League fantasist
In the 1920s, recollects NTP Murphy, in one of several trainspotterish afterwords to Sunset at Blandings, Wodehouse liked to write in the mornings, walk in the ... «Herald Scotland, 二月 15»
Fellow saddoes rejoice: BBC4 has made a comedy-drama about …
... silly camouflage outfits adorned with webbing; the trainspotterish obsession with metal detector brands (mine's an XP Deus, by the way: just thought you ought ... «Spectator.co.uk, 十月 14»
Eilis O'Hanlon: Listen to Olivia because 'more silence means less …
Having dealt with all that dull trainspotterish number-crunching over which the political class likes to obsess, O'Leary dived into the heart of what this really is all ... «Irish Independent, 九月 13»
Nipper's toy train enjoys journey to edge of SPAAAAACE
*A quick bit of very trainspotterish research reveals Stanley is a hybrid design based on tank engines produced by Leeds manufacturers Hudswell Clarke, and ... «Register, 一月 13»
Whisky Stramash-Up
Darroch Ramsay isn't too sure about the direction that whisky events have taken. “Things can be a bit pretentious, and a bit... trainspotterish. Scotch is about ... «The Skinny, 四月 12»
Harry Potter studio tour: first review
Unless you are the most trainspotterish of fans, there is not enough here to sustain a full day out. Three hours is the maximum you would spend here, including ... «Telegraph.co.uk, 三月 12»
Eilis O'Hanlon: Vincent Browne's soft-focus interview was a …
Browne had Ian Bailey sitting before him and typically went for the trainspotterish legalistic angle, rather than taking the chance to rummage around inside the ... «Irish Independent, 三月 12»
