you can't beat this:

prelims requiem

It's scary when the condescending jokes you used to make seem all set to come through as reality. Three months of mourning and fasting, wearing sackcloth and ashes.

gorgeous

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Crikey! Steve Irwin's gotten himself stung by and stingray, fatally piercing his heart! Gee I'll miss his gorgeous shows. It really is a pity that he got finished not "glamourously" by a shark or crocodile, but instead by a stingray which has few fatal cases. By golly he's someone we'll find it hard to forget.
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And reading the quickly updated Wikipedia apparently Irwin was great fan of the Singapore Zoo, which he considered a sister institution of the Australia Zoo, his zoo. Not bad.

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Holidays and I'm supposed to be mugging hard. But not Hari standard yet. Argh.