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2,000 toilet
seat lights to fit 10,000 bowl heights - how did you ever
manage without one? *****
Bizarre stuff
you can make in your kitchen - Bizarre stuff you can make
in your kitchen! ****
Craziest Websites
on the Planet Featuring "Dr Crazy" winner
of the Short Attention Span of the Week site in April! *****
Ferrets
Online: "Introduction to ferrets and links to other
ferret sites of interest" **
Fun
with Grapes - a microwave lightshow. No responsibility
accepted if you are daft enough to do this. ***
Guana Guana, Hopper, Brownie
and Bumpy - The story of four very special (and spoiled)
green iguanas *****
Jockie 'n Rossie go to Majorca
a tale of simple folk following football *
The Boot
Jack Stand: Ideal for the removal of any boot at any time
*
Ugly sites, daft sites and truly imaginative stuff from Inept
***
Web Police - No,
I didn't believe it either *
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Anstruther
Lifeboat Station An absolute must for East Neuk fans *****
Budget
Holidays Guide to Sleeping in Airports: ***
Edinburghers
Biographies: Adam Smith, Robert Louis Stevenson, Elsie
Inglis and more. **
Edinburgh Pub Tour:
Really swish but there are over 500 more pubs than they feature
**
How
many female breeding pigs in Scotland? the Scottish Office
knows, and you can too! **
Live
pictures from Davis Station Antartica - Fascinating, but
not a lot to see at night! ****
Potatoes Online a fascinating
site for all you spuds freaks *****
Royal
Canadian Mounted Police - A wee charging Mountie gif and
lots of Mountie pics. ***
Sedgwick County
Fire Department Kansas For firefighter fans. * (male vote)
***** (female vote)
Subway
Navigator - Find your way round any subway in the world.
It even told me how to get from Cowcaddens to Buchanan Street.
*****
Tayside
Police Good evening and welcome. Info on how to get to
the 1999 Open Golf and warnings in five languages about the
perils of illegal parking and how tee'd off you'd get about
being towed away. **
The
Kingdoms of Lowland Scotland Did you know that Strathclyde
Kings claimed descent from Ceretic Wledic? (Some Kings claimed
descent from Macsen Wledig (Magnus Maximus), but this appears
to have been due to confusion with Ceretig.) *****
Universal Currency Converter
- Even has Euros to Pounds. Really Handy. ****
What's
the traffic like in Seattle? Freeway cams - have a look
at Snoqualmie Pass! (Our favourite - don't know why) *****
Humour
April Fools on
the web - hours of malicious fun! ***
Asterix:
Competitions, Stories and Wallpaper (Thanks to The Scotsman)
****
(Big
Tamsh Unoffichial Language Learner) - Learn to shpeak
like a film shtar - Unfortunately this site (at Heriot Watt)
has gone. We say bring back the speak like Sean Connery site
- it was magnificent. *****
Eric Idle Drove
My Car: Enough said. Though you could click on
the words at the very bottom... *****
Fistful
of Spikes: Allegedly Spike Milligan's homepage **
Ham(p)ster Dance
This will really cheer you up! "Why do you misspell hamster?
It's not supposed to have a 'p' in it! If you don't think
hampster has 'p' in it, then you've never owned a hampster!
;-) Everything here is named with a 'p' because the name of
the original HampsterDancer is Hampton Hampster, a little
hamster from Canada" - *****
Fishy Dance More
of the bizarre same - but have fun pausing your mouse over
the fish and giggling at the comments ****
"Kissthisguy"
funny, bizarre and downright daft misheard song lyrics ***
Music
Scottish
midi tunes Just in time for the parliament sing-a-long.
***
Sheena Easton's OFFICIAL
Homepage: No cheap imitations here. **
Political?
Cuba's Website: It's
worth it just for the rippling Java lake in the opening banner.
***
Pretty sites
Art Center College of
Design (Pasadena Calif.) Some lovely wee touches and a
new pic every time you go in! *****
Caledonian MacBrayne
"Hello there! What a beautiful day. And warm too. A grand
day for going to sea. Indeed, yes. Anyway, welcome aboard
the Caledonian MacBrayne web site. I'm here to tell you all
about the west coast of Scotland..." it says. ***
Monet's
home, garden and village - Some lovely stuff and lots
of strobing (why?) Monet posters. LA Times "Times Pick"
May 1997, so they say. ****
Perth College My
niece works in a restaurant in Perth. Ask if your waitress's
name is Jenny. ****
Scottish Council for Voluntary
Organisations Nice birling logo and design, I think anyway.
Unfortunately the re-design is not as nice as the old one.
Was *****, now ****
Secret
MI5's secret site Well,
not really. *
The CIA's
kids homepage Honest! ***
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