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This Week's Spam
Leaf Through It It's autumn. If you stand under a newsagent tree for long enough (and pay £1.50) a lovely golden Venue magazine will flutter down onto you with: Autumn Escapes - Why not treat yourself and your friend/pet/lover to a weekend away before winter really sets in? We've got a load of getaway ideas to suit all foodie/sporty/relax-y tastes, and - to make it even better - they all clock in on the bright side of £100. Halloween - Great for kids, bit uncomfortable if you're a pumpkin. As well as the latest 'Saw' flick and those legions of irritating trick-or-treaters, we know of lots of other spookesome goings-on to get your (vampire) teeth into. PLUS - Free film and club tickets! ... We try to make sense of all that Tesco/Sainsburys/World Cup/BCFC Stadium thing ... Irish comedian Ed Byrne interviewed ... Ace Geordie folk troupe The Unthanks ... Lynn Barber's coming-of-age fable 'An Education' on screen ... Firework displays ... Job ads ... And loads more, including your complete ten-day local entertainment guide. * Or subscribe for only £4.99 a month! More details here: http://www.venue.co.uk/subs/index.html
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Mystery Audiences "Audiences seem to have this collective consciousness, like ants or bees, and all decide instantly and without communicating, whether to find a particular joke funny. It's amazing that it's so binary. You can do a joke that just kills every night and then do it one night and get absolutely nothing. Like an audience has decided as one, 'we don't get that'. It can be in the same town, it can be in the same venue, and a joke that worked last Friday, this Friday just gets nothing. It's incredible. And it happens too quickly to be just a sheep-mentality thing, everyone copying everyone else. I've been in the game 16 years and it's still a mystery to me." - Irish comedian Ed Byrne, interviewed this issue.
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Protect your privacy "We were mortified by how many people were prepared to share their personal information with complete strangers. It's clear that last week's awareness campaign has failed to make much of an impact on the general public." That's Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, who was on the streets of Bristol with a video camera for National Identity Theft Prevention Week. He conducted a number of interviews with passers-by on College Green. All but one of them gave him their full name, and most happily shared their date of birth and email address. Remember - don't talk to strangers, and don't give them enough information to pretend to be you. Especially people from antivirus companies, who'll end up putting your picture on YouTube and making you look silly. It's here: tinyurl.com/ylgwrh6
* * * * * Q&A What's the first thing you can remember? What are you scared of? Who is your hero? - Irish Comedian David O' Doherty, interviewed this issue
* * * * * Jokes An Englishman went to Spain on a fishing trip. He hired a Spanish guide to help him find the best fishing spots. Since the Englishman was learning Spanish, he asked the guide to speak to him in Spanish and to correct any usage mistakes.
* * * * * Websites New Bristol Cycling City website http://www.betterbybike.info/ Cake wrecks (Thanks Jack) http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/ World's worst cycle lanes http://www.flickr.com/groups/1239331@N20/ Political left and right explained http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/leftvright_world.html
* * * * * Competitions Win!!!
This week's Venue gives you the chance to win tickets to the UK's biggest indie night with thousands of people dancing themselves stupid all over the country. Here in Bristol, Propaganda is on every Wednesday at Syndicate and packs 'em in week after week with their blend of the best new and classic alternative tunes. We also have tickets for a special Halloween screening of the classic German vampire horror flick 'Nosferatu' - with special musical accompaniment. For the chance to win either/both, see this week's Venue mag.
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