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1. The original advocaat (creamy egg and brandy liqueur) is thick and often eaten with a spoon, and the liquid version in a bottle is sold as an export. It used to be made with avocados by the Dutch in Suriname and Recife, then with egg yolk in the Netherlands where avocados were not availiable.
2. Windows Mobile IE supports CSS and insists on loading the main stylesheet and ignoring media="handheld". Workaround: link to the main stylesheet as media="Screen" (upper-case S) and Windows Mobile will ignore it.
3. The pretzel pictured on the arms of Staffordshire is called a Stafford knot.
4. Faraday cages (enclosures that block out electrical fields) are everywhere: in microwave ovens, coaxial cables, some passport and credit card protecting sleeves and elevators.
5. Five-year-olds today can still believe in Santa (a friend of mine is taking her daughter to Lapland to meet him). I wished that when I was that age I had not found the presents mum and dad had hidden away weeks before Christmas. Of course, I pretended not to have seen them and acted all surprised on Christmas day, believing that if I had given my parents' game away I would have stopped receiving presents. Which incidentally is what happened when I did challenge them about the fact that a) we did not have a fireplace, b) there's no way a fat man can travel down a chimney anyway (let alone each and every good child's chimney around the world in a single night), and c) I never bought into that Catholic nonsense, and you want me to believe that reindeer can fly? Bah!
6. The awards handed out by the Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences are nicknamed 'the Mackies'. Red vs Blue (machinima produced with footage from Halo and Halo 2) won three in 2004 and one in 2005.
7. Eating a whole 195g box of liqueur-filled chocolates in one very quick go on an empty stomach while opening presents early on Christmas morning gives you a bit of a buzz. However, since the chocolates in question contained only 2.3% liqueur (a very sober total of 4.5 grams) I must have been jittery on chocolate and the fact that Santa! He left them for ME!

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