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Pelita Hati Pelita Kemanusiaan	by Fery Mulyana Feb. 09, 2012	$1.99	101804 words	Sample 20%
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El movimiento de Oxford: una explicaciÃ³n para argentinos.	by Jack Tollers Feb. 09, 2012	Free!	18899 words	Read a sample
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An In-Depth Look into Sexual Disorders and Gender Identity Disorder	by Ryan Barlow Feb. 08, 2012	$1.49	3141 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: Ryan Barlow is an American author, ghostwriter, and college professor. He is co-author of the upcoming series "The Celts of Vallarix" and the author of the upcoming book, "How to Get Straight A's with the Least Amount of Work: A Guide to Excelling in School while Living Life to the Fullest". Ryan began his career when his college English professor pushed for publication and recommended Ryan to the tutoring program to help shape and define the writing ability of America's future. After a few years of editing and tutoring, Ryan was asked to help ghostwrite an autobiography. A writer was born. He currently teaches veterinary science at Boston Reed University, and is pursuing his PhD in anthropology.
The Argument for Post Term Abortion	by Ryan Barlow Feb. 08, 2012	$0.99	2201 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: Ryan Barlow is an American author, ghostwriter, and college professor. He is co-author of the upcoming series "The Celts of Vallarix" and the author of the upcoming book, "How to Get Straight A's with the Least Amount of Work: A Guide to Excelling in School while Living Life to the Fullest". Ryan began his career when his college English professor pushed for publication and recommended Ryan to the tutoring program to help shape and define the writing ability of America's future. After a few years of editing and tutoring, Ryan was asked to help ghostwrite an autobiography. A writer was born. He currently teaches veterinary science at Boston Reed University, and is pursuing his PhD in anthropology.
Health and Wellbeing Millionaire	by Fiona Jones Feb. 08, 2012	$14.95	104836 words
Author bio: Fiona Jones is the creator and author of The Millionaire Book Series. It was her love of reading and passion for inspiring people that led her to develop the series. Her mission is to inspire millions to make millions by sharing extraordinary success stories through her books and others books published through her publishing company Source Publishing and Production Group. Fiona started her career in the medical world, working as an ultrasonographer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Throughout this rewarding career, Fiona invested in property, mostly in Sydney and on the Gold Coast. Her first property renovation on a block of units in Sydney resulted in a phenomenal profit. She has a natural flair for property, and currently has several projects under development. Fiona holds a Certificate IV in Real Estate, has had a successful business in the beauty industry and has honed her skills through attending seminars and reading extensively on mindset and investment strategies. In her spare time, Fiona volunteers in a school banking role to support and encourage school children to start saving early. She believes anyone can achieve wealth simply by the habit of saving. She is also making plans to fulfil her dream of building a school in Bali with a huge collection of books. She loves to walk, swim, read and practice yoga.
Global Jurix Law Firm, a Great way of go ahead in professional law services.	by Amit Singh Feb. 08, 2012	Free!	971 words	Read a sample
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Heartfelt Devotionals, 366 devotions for common sense living	by Brenda J Wood Feb. 08, 2012	$4.99	86423 words	Sample 20%
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Identifying Personality Online Gender & Orientation	by Rebecca Semper Feb. 07, 2012	$14.99	2073 words	Sample 11%
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Julio RamÃ³n Ribeyro, Impurity, and the Trials of the Amateur	by Juan LePuen Feb. 05, 2012	$1.80	6313 words	Sample 30%
Author bio: American translator and editor, born in 1969.
cooking for kids	by Chen Weifeng Feb. 05, 2012	$9.90	17672 words	Sample 20%
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The Many Faces of Love: What the Greatest LOVE Poems in English Say About LOVE	by Anne Kinsey Feb. 04, 2012	$1.99	7924 words	Sample 20%
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Put On a Smile By Purchasing David Yurman Replica Jewelry	by Amjad Iqbal Feb. 04, 2012	Free!	279 words	Read a sample
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Running a Nursing Home Democratically	by Dennis Shaughnessy Feb. 04, 2012	Free!	921 words	Read a sample
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KGO Radio Jumps The Shark: More News, Less Talk	by C.D. Reimer Feb. 03, 2012	$0.99	3978 words	Sample 45%
Author bio: C.D. Reimer lives and works in Silicon Valley. His interests are ceramics, painting, tropical fish, and web programming. These keep him out of trouble when heâ€™s not fixing broken users and consoling hurt computers. Currently working on his first novel, two short story collections, and various short stories. He had published 25+ short stories and appeared in a half dozen anthologies.
Soap Opera Uncensored: Issue 16	by Nelson Branco Feb. 03, 2012	$2.49	9705 words	Sample 15%
Author bio: Nelson Branco is a Toronto freelance entertainment journalist, who regularly contributes to Hello! Canada, CTV National News Channel, The National Post, The Los Angeles Times' theenvelope.com, TV Guide USA, tvguide.com, Inside Entertainment, OUT, OK!, Zoomer, Entertainment Tonight, etalk Daily, and fab magazine. For over five years, he spearheaded the soap coverage for TVGuide.ca's popular and controversial daytime-TV hub. In 2009, he appeared on the CW's Daytime Emmy Awards during the red carpet show as an expert. After graduating from Ryerson University in 1997 with a Radio and Television Arts BA degree, he moved from Toronto to New York in 1998 to take on the roles as senior news editor at Soap Opera Update. Branco first freelanced for Soap Opera Weekly as an intern in 1994, and after leaving Soap Update to help create and launch Bauer Publishing's In Touch Weekly in 2003, the Winnipeg native continued to freelance occasionally for its sister publication, Soaps In Depth. In addition, Branco has successfully helped create and launch various magazines In Touch Weekly, Hello! Canada and Canada's first celebrity magazine, Weekly Scoop, where he served as its news and entertainment director. Branco was also a producer and an on-air expert on TVTropolis series, Planet Soap. Most recently, he helped launch The Marilyn Denis Show on CTV as its managing show writer.
Kuharimisha	by Karen Celestan Feb. 03, 2012	$7.99	22028 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: Karen Celestan manages community relations and policy in government affairs for Tulane University. She is an adjunct instructor of English at Southern University at New Orleans. Celestan is the co-author of unfinished blues: Memories of a New Orleans Music Man with Harold Battiste, Jr. (Historic New Orleans Collection, 2010). The Black Caucus of the American Library Association, Inc. (BCALA) presented the 2011 Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation to unfinished blues for excellence in scholarship. She was senior director of university communications for Dillard University, publications and media coordinator for Festival Productions, Inc. of New Orleans (which produces the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and produced The Essence Music Festival), and a copy editor for The Times-Picayune (New Orleans) and the Louisiana Weekly. A former journalist, her work has appeared in a number of publications, including The Times-Picayune, Gambit Newsweekly, The Louisiana Weekly, and the Niagara Gazette (Niagara Falls, New York). Her creative work has appeared in several literary magazines and poetry collections. Celestan is a graduate of the University of New Orleans with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in communications and English, and Queens University of Charlotte (North Carolina) with a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in creative writing. She is the owner of Mosaic Literary, LLC.
The Bule Light	by liu liulin Feb. 03, 2012	Free!	275 words	Read a sample
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I Find Trouble	by Dave Rodway Feb. 02, 2012	Free!	1481 words	Read a sample
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The Legacy	by David Sil Feb. 02, 2012	$2.99	20522 words	Sample 10%
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Transforming Apologetics: A Critical Apologetic Appraisal of Rob Bellâ€™s Love Wins	by Jon Rogers Feb. 02, 2012	$1.99	22227 words	Sample 20%
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Peanuts & Astrology	by Stefano Rubino Feb. 02, 2012	$3.99	24270 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: Stefano Rubino was born in Padua (Italy) on the 3rd June 1976. His interest for jungian psychology and astrology has lead him to write â€œPeanuts & Astrologyâ€, his first book. You can currently track him down in Spain, around the Guadalajara area or on the following e-mail address: melkartin@hotmail.com Stefano Rubino Ã¨ nato a Padova, in Italia, il 3 giugno 1976. Lâ€™interesse per lâ€™astrologia e per la psicologia junghiana lo ha portato a concepire lâ€™idea per "Peanuts & Astrologia", il suo primo libro. PuÃ² essere rintracciato attualmente in Spagna, dalle parti di Guadalajara o al seguente indirizzo mail: s.r1976@libero.it
Formation and Registration Company Law Services in India	by Amit Singh Feb. 02, 2012	Free!	929 words	Read a sample
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Rural Canada Contrast for America	by Calvin Colt Feb. 01, 2012	$5.99	1485 words	Sample 14%
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Someday Dreams	by Chuck Grossart Feb. 01, 2012	Free!	1219 words	Read a sample
Author bio: Chuck Grossart is a retired United States Air Force officer originally from the Denver, Colorado area. After completing a 20-year USAF career, he settled his family outside of Omaha, Nebraska, where he continues to serve as a Department of the Air Force civilian. A geographically-separated Denver Bronco fan (who has gradually learned to embrace the term GO BIG RED), Chuck loves to spend time with his familyâ€”his lovely bride & three kidsâ€”as they roam the house in search of hidden munchies, trip over spent Nerf gun rounds, and dodge semi-sentient balls of pet hair that leap from under the furniture to attach themselves to dark clothes, each one lovingly spun by Goldie the Golden Retriever, Hershey the Chocolate Lab, Maggie the Cockapoo, and the cat who lives in the basement.
Concept of Hair Extensions	by Jonathan Nelson Feb. 01, 2012	Free!	659 words	Read a sample
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Selecting the Right International Health Insurance Plan	by Tracy McManamon Jan. 31, 2012	Free!	526 words	Read a sample
Author bio: I am a health insurance agent with over 22 years of experience. I serve clients in the state of Ohio and Kentucky.
Relocating Expatriates - Necessity of International Medical Insurance	by Tracy McManamon Jan. 31, 2012	Free!	389 words	Read a sample
Author bio: I am a health insurance agent with over 22 years of experience. I serve clients in the state of Ohio and Kentucky.
Kentucky Health Insurance - Keeping Health Care Costs Down	by Tracy McManamon Jan. 31, 2012	Free!	709 words	Read a sample
Author bio: I am a health insurance agent with over 22 years of experience. I serve clients in the state of Ohio and Kentucky.
Shit I Believe In	by Enir Nabu Jan. 31, 2012	$0.99	3892 words	Sample 5%
Author bio: I believe I'm an incarnated soul from the Arcturian constellation. Here to help.
Bilderberg Club 1954 - 2011	by Heinz Duthel Jan. 31, 2012	$9.99	326067 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: Heinz Duthel, Master in Philosophy Born 1950 in Germany Joint the French Foreign Legion 1966 First book published 1979 (Es ist 5 vor 12) with the assistance of Heinrich Boell, SPK and RH of the German University Bielefeld Served for several Government Services until 1999 From 2000 till today, Consultant EUISS, Member of: BDWI.de Deutschland ATTAC.de Germany - another world is possible! International Society for Philosophers Philosophers Today iccnow.org I like to thanks and remember my teacher and best friend I ever had, Dr. Joachim Koch who passed away on 17.9.2008 Publisher and Editor of www.philosophers-today.com Heinz Duthel, February 2011 More... http:/www.hegel.in (Heinz Duthel E-Books Shop) http://pivc.net (Press Release) http://www.attka.com http://www.xinxii.com (Download Heinz Duthel E-Books) Thank you Heinz Duthel
EV SSL Certificates for Better Online Business Credibility	by Kent Robert Jan. 30, 2012	Free!	686 words	Read a sample
Author bio: SSLRenewals.com offers EV SSL or Extended Validation certificates renewal from Authorized Platinum partner at affordable prices. Renew your EV SSL certificate with the great offers and discounts available here.
Tackle Any Legal Issues with Global Jurix	by Amit Singh Jan. 30, 2012	Free!	1078 words	Sample 20%
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Killing Me Softly With Jazz Hands...	by Becky Pedigo Jan. 30, 2012	$3.99	13325 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: Becky Pedigo is a stand up comic and writer. She has appeared on various television shows including "The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson", as well as having her own half hour Comedy Central special "Comedy Central Presents, Becky Pedigo." She was also invited to perform at the prestigious "Just For laughs" comedy festival in Montreal Canada. Becky has traveled abroad with the USO entertaining the troops and has worked in almost every state in the Union (including Alaska and Hawaii), driving through blizzards, floods and pestilence just to bring a half smile to the face of someone willing to meet the two-drink minimum. She continues to do so to this day... much to her delight and chagrin.
THE Interview: Everyone Should Read This	by Piso Mojado Jan. 30, 2012	You set the price!	4175 words	Sample 20%
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How It Feels to Kill and Other Thoughts by a Radical with a Liberal Left-Wing Nut, Anti-Everything Agenda	by Charles Sheehan-Miles Jan. 30, 2012	$2.99	13847 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: Charles Sheehan-Miles is the author of Republic and Prayer at Rumayla: A Novel of the Gulf War. He is currently writing Insurgent, the sequel to Republic. Charles served in combat with the 24th Infantry Division during the 1991 Gulf War, and was decorated for valor for helping rescue fellow tank crewmen from a burning tank during the Battle at Rumayla. Since then, he has been a regular speaker on issues relating to the Gulf War, ill veterans and the impact of post-traumatic stress. He is a former President and co-founder of the National Gulf War Resource Center and has served on the board of the Education for Peace in Iraq Center. Prior to becoming executive director of Veterans for Common Sense in August 2004, he was director of the Nuclear Policy Research Institute in Washington, DC. He continues to serve on the board of directions of Veterans for Common Sense. Charles lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his wife Veronica and their two children.
Short Stuff	by Neil Levy Jan. 30, 2012	$4.99	15973 words	Sample 20%
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Call a Spade a Shovel	by Gavin Tucker Jan. 30, 2012	$3.99	34626 words	Sample 5%
Author bio: Gavin Tucker is a 28 year old South African radio personality and voice artist. he has been actively involved in media for 8 years and has worked on some of South Africa's largest radio stations. Apart from radio, he also writes, focusing mainly on humour and satire. And when he isn't scribbling down thoughts, he loses himself in the splendor of books.
EU Commercial Law: Joint Venture and Competition	by Lung-Tan Lu Jan. 30, 2012	$5.99	41491 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: Lu has published 20 refereed articles in international journals and was the winner of 2008 Highly Commended Award, Emerald. His research includes international joint ventures, EU Competition Law, and cross-cultural management.
Wrestling With Oresteia	by TJ Seitz Jan. 29, 2012	Free!	1670 words	Read a sample
Author bio: Fantasy Bio: The day TJ Seitz turned 43 he bought a Harley Davidson motorcycle and laptop computer. The next day he woke up, got his kids on the school bus, kissed his wife good-bye, went to work and quit his job. By 9AM he was on his way to Burlington Vermont where he met up with the 18 year old daughter of a woman he dated in college and headed for the Florida Keys. Today TJ Seitz lives on the Caribbean Island of Martinique with his young lover where he runs a small computer repair shop that caters to tourists and locals. After hours and weekends TJ can be found patronizing local cafes with his laptop or debating island politics over a bottle of cheap rum. Reality Bio: On the surface TJ Seitz appears to be a quintessential middle aged male. Heâ€™s married to his HS sweetheart and lives with his family (3 kids, a dog, 5 cats, 4 guinea pigs, a rabbit and a leopard gecko) in a suburban split level ranch located on the outskirts of Rochester, NY. TJ spent 20 years in the field of government IT before shifting his career path towards procurement. Learning why/how things work, â€œpushing buttonsâ€ and â€œstirring the potâ€ (instigating) have always been inherent weaknesses for Mr. Seitz so administrating computers and contracts within large bureaucracies comes natural for him. While working full time, TJ also attended college part time (and sometimes full time). To keep himself (relatively speaking) sane he majored and minored in non-technology subjects, earning a BA in English with a writing concentration from Saint John Fisher College and a MA in Social Policy Empire State College. He studied with George Saunders and Judith Kitchen (though neither teacher would probably remember him). Distractions like kicking virtual waspâ€™s nests on BITNET Listservs (predecessors to social networking sites like Facebook), soliciting donations for a Panty Alter fund and hanging out with a heavily medicated professional drummer named Dirtbag interfered with TJâ€™s ability to write anything particularly noteworthy for either class. He also attended a workshop at the Omega Institute mentored by Marge Piercy and Ira Wood. In reality the stable full time jobs have been serving as functional fronts for TJâ€™s secret life as a writer. They provided him with money to pay his bills and experiential material to write about. The down side of working in IT and going to college was that he did not have a lot of time to devote to writing and publishing. Adding a problematic first marriage, babies and divorce to the mix did not help much either. TJâ€™s essays and letters have been printed in both local and national publications. His poetry has been published both United States and England.
Poetry In Time	by Zachary Howlett Jan. 29, 2012	$3.00	3337 words	Sample 20%
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The Ostraka Plays - A Companion	by Francis Hagan Jan. 29, 2012	Free!	3331 words	Read a sample
Author bio: I have been writing on and off since I was a shy lad hiding under the bed and scribbling in an out of date diary (I think it was about my space travels). Most of my works have been either plays populated with grotesques who stumble around ruins and those odd places we forget about or epic tales of those last Roman legionaries as they falter and fall at the end of Empire. Over the last three years, I have embarked on a series of plays which I have entitled 'The Ostraka Plays' and in which I am exploring that space where the irrational and the seductive collide. I remain fascinated by a poetics which allows an imagination to populate a forgotten nook in history outside our conventions and expectations. In these plays, the audience is invited into worlds which remain provisional and insecure - and where freedom is that release from convention. The other side of my writings could not be more opposite - in these stories, the dying light of Rome flutters one last desperate time as I seek to follow the last of the Eagles down into their fates. Here, archaeological record, literary fragments, and my own invention intertwine to set a stage ripe for heroics and betrayal.
#NouveauMonde	by Jean-Philippe Denis Jan. 29, 2012	Free!	4916 words	Read a sample
Author bio: Professor of Strategic Management, Paris Ouest Nanterre la DÃ©fense University.
Chicken Soup for the Chicken	by Joseph Sorensen Jan. 28, 2012	$2.99	1499 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: JOSEPH SORENSEN is by profession an inventor, holder of a few dozen or so patents. His most recognizable is surely the Quick-Grip, a one-hand-operable clamp preferred by woodwork-ers throughout the world. That invention came from an unknown inventor to be named â€˜Best of Whatâ€™s Newâ€™ by Popular Science Magazine in 1989. During the tenure of the patents, the Quick-Grip product line grossed nearly a billion dollars in sales. Born in Sioux City and raised on the other side of the broad Missouri, Sorensen hunted, fished, married and helped raise a family like other Nebraska lads. But then something happened. He left it all behind and moved west, first to the mountains of Montana, then to the shores of California. Brought finally to his senses by the cold waters of the Pacific, Sorensen decided to become of all things, a writer. His writings are virtually unknown. But â€“ like the clamp â€“ they may well find a following. We shall see.
Highway Dinosaur: A Changed World	by Jack Nelson Jan. 28, 2012	$0.99	3277 words	Sample 20%
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Short Love Poems	by Akangbe Oladayo Jan. 28, 2012	$2.00	1518 words	Sample 10%
Author bio: i'm a simply guy, just want to get better in whatever i do.
Soap Opera Uncensored: Issue 15	by Nelson Branco Jan. 27, 2012	$2.49	7259 words	Sample 15%
Author bio: Nelson Branco is a Toronto freelance entertainment journalist, who regularly contributes to Hello! Canada, CTV National News Channel, The National Post, The Los Angeles Times' theenvelope.com, TV Guide USA, tvguide.com, Inside Entertainment, OUT, OK!, Zoomer, Entertainment Tonight, etalk Daily, and fab magazine. For over five years, he spearheaded the soap coverage for TVGuide.ca's popular and controversial daytime-TV hub. In 2009, he appeared on the CW's Daytime Emmy Awards during the red carpet show as an expert. After graduating from Ryerson University in 1997 with a Radio and Television Arts BA degree, he moved from Toronto to New York in 1998 to take on the roles as senior news editor at Soap Opera Update. Branco first freelanced for Soap Opera Weekly as an intern in 1994, and after leaving Soap Update to help create and launch Bauer Publishing's In Touch Weekly in 2003, the Winnipeg native continued to freelance occasionally for its sister publication, Soaps In Depth. In addition, Branco has successfully helped create and launch various magazines In Touch Weekly, Hello! Canada and Canada's first celebrity magazine, Weekly Scoop, where he served as its news and entertainment director. Branco was also a producer and an on-air expert on TVTropolis series, Planet Soap. Most recently, he helped launch The Marilyn Denis Show on CTV as its managing show writer.
Sophia's Portrait: A Long Story	by liu liulin Jan. 27, 2012	$0.99	238 words	Sample 10%
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We Fall Down	by michael johnson Jan. 27, 2012	$9.00	16313 words	Sample 10%
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Kate Russell and the Coupon of Doom	by Kate Russell Jan. 26, 2012	$0.99	1106 words	Sample 50%
Author bio: Kate Russell lives in the Nashville, Tennessee area with her husband and two children. She also has cats that like to play fetch. Sometimes she blogs as her under-appreciated assistant, Cordelia Blackfaire.
How I, One of Life's Star Members, Avoided the Jealous Wrath of My Social Class	by Frankie Lassut Jan. 26, 2012	Free!	22140 words	Read a sample
Author bio: I don't think saying 'I'm a writer' is enough to describe what I actually do. I like to entertain, and I use writing as a medium to do that. That then makes me a (and yeah, I obviously use a keyboard),... a... what's a good word? How about, a Pen-tertainer? I'm a Pentertainer ... I live in Coventry, England, but am originally from the North West of the country. I've been in Coventry for 21 years, and the hardest part was learning how to use a knife and fork and other domestic things after spending so much time up there in the frozen wastelands tearing chunks of meat off the kill after roasting it on a fire. Mind you, I'm not entirely re trained to life in the City, as quite a few people I've met down here do still talk in grunts; I'm one of the few who can understand them, and so, I work part time in the DSS claims office. (not true, but wouldn't that be so cool if it was). I myself got told off years ago by a stern faced lady in the claims office. I was on the Jobseekers/New Start course (Course? LOL), and I told my claims officer that I enjoyed going down there ... "Mr Lassut! You aren't supposed to enjoy it!" ... Her T shirt should have given it away before I opened my mouth. It read: 'I hate what I'm told to hate ... that means YOU' Last time I saw her she was in the fancy dress shop near Argos, buying a Gadaffi costume with mask. I thought she was going to a fancy dress do, but now look! ... I think she was investigating international claimant's Nat Insurance numbers, but got a little carried away. Bless her cotton socks.

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