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	<title>Queenie at Large &#187; pensioner news</title>
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	<description>Queenie of Collingwood, a lady of advanced years, lives in impoverished yet genteel circumstances. She dictates this blog to a neighbour in exchange for racing tips.</description>
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		<title>Queenie at Large &#187; pensioner news</title>
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		<title>Happy Birthday, Elvis</title>
		<link>http://pensioner.wordpress.com/2007/08/16/happy-birthday-elvis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007 10:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a nice age, 72. A nice round figure, probably along the lines of his figure now. I&#8217;m quite sure he would have lost all those pounds he was carrying 30 years ago, (well he has, hasn&#8217;t he?)
My friend Reg who knows a lot about fillies is 72.  It&#8217;s not a bad age for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pensioner.wordpress.com&blog=1476423&post=131&subd=pensioner&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Plucky Pensioner at Large</title>
		<link>http://pensioner.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/plucky-pensioner-at-large/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This plucky pensioner led police on a low-speed chase around Middlesbrough, England &#8211; and then gave officers the slip.
The lukewarm pursuit started after he caused traffic chaos by crawling down the fast lane of a busy dual carriageway.
Police asked the stubborn senior citizen to pull over. But he defiantly cranked his battery-powered mobility scooter up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pensioner.wordpress.com&blog=1476423&post=128&subd=pensioner&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Plucky Pensioner</media:title>
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		<title>Developers win again</title>
		<link>http://pensioner.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/developers-win-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 00:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Q</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A huge Chinese Developer has finally won and defeated little home owner, pensioner  Wu Pin.
For more than 3 years this home has been stuck in the middle of a construction site in a pit in Chongqing city. 
The developers want to turn the area into a $40m &#8216;Broadway&#8217; square, including apartments and a shopping [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pensioner.wordpress.com&blog=1476423&post=120&subd=pensioner&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pensioner turns vicious</title>
		<link>http://pensioner.wordpress.com/2007/01/08/pensioner-turns-vicious/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2007 09:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Q</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
I see that Rosemarie Hamilton-Meikle, a normally placid pensioner of 80 good years, attacked 3 wild boars in Dartmoor, sending fear into the hearts of the savage beasts. The brutes had the ill-luck to come across her dachsund as he scuttered around under a bush. 
 
&#8221; I heard a terrible screaming noise and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pensioner.wordpress.com&blog=1476423&post=118&subd=pensioner&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Comfort of a Weeping Statue</title>
		<link>http://pensioner.wordpress.com/2006/09/24/the-comfort-of-a-weeping-statue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Sep 2006 12:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Q</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Devout Catholic Patty Powell picked up a fibreglass statue while passing through Bangkok, took it home, stuck it on a shelf and then forgot about it. But, in the middle of a hearty Spring Clean, he discovered a miracle!
The statue was crying.
Patty, to give him due credit, immediately realised he was witnessing the Mother of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pensioner.wordpress.com&blog=1476423&post=99&subd=pensioner&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does a new career beckon?</title>
		<link>http://pensioner.wordpress.com/2006/09/13/does-a-new-career-beckon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2006 04:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Q</dc:creator>
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I couldn&#8217;t fail but to be a little excited by this advertisment :
Wanted: 20 diminutive actors who can sing. Hairy feet an advantage.
Producers of a musical version of &#8220;The Lord of the Rings&#8221;, looking for candidates to play the hobbit heroes, are searching for male and female actors and singers aged between 16-35 who must [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pensioner.wordpress.com&blog=1476423&post=90&subd=pensioner&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blessed Virgin Mary Sightings again</title>
		<link>http://pensioner.wordpress.com/2006/08/29/blessed-virgin-mary-sightings-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2006 03:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
 I haven&#8217;t given a thought to the B.V.M for more than 50 years, but obviously a lot of people never grew out of their invisible- friend phase and Mary has been popping up all over the place. In recent years the B.V.M has been spotted on a ham sandwich, markings on the wall of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pensioner.wordpress.com&blog=1476423&post=78&subd=pensioner&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s in your drawers?</title>
		<link>http://pensioner.wordpress.com/2006/08/24/whats-in-your-drawers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Aug 2006 13:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Q</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Meet Winifred Whelan, who was threatened in her home by a man brandishing a 10-inch knife. She grabbed a larger carving knife from her kitchen, shoved it at the heroic intruder&#8217;s belly and quoted the famous words from Crocodile Dundee &#8220;That&#8217;s not a knife, this is a knife!&#8221;
This is the sort of thing that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pensioner.wordpress.com&blog=1476423&post=73&subd=pensioner&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I don&#8217;t get the joke</title>
		<link>http://pensioner.wordpress.com/2006/01/17/i-dont-get-the-joke/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Q</dc:creator>
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Is this a joke? I found an old news article at ABC Science News
It basically says that you won&#8217;t lose your sense of humour as you get older, but you might find it harder to “get” some jokes.
The research is by Dr Prathiba Shammi, a psychologist with Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care in Toronto, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pensioner.wordpress.com&blog=1476423&post=22&subd=pensioner&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Get on your Bike</title>
		<link>http://pensioner.wordpress.com/2005/12/15/get-on-your-bike/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2005 19:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Q</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bikes seem to be gaining popularity amongst the senior set
An 84-year-old man, missing since he left home to ride his bike in the small central Polish town of Znin last week, has been found in good health wandering round London&#8217;s Heathrow Airport.
&#8220;According to the family, he just took his bike and left,&#8221; a Polish police [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pensioner.wordpress.com&blog=1476423&post=8&subd=pensioner&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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