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Archive | January, 2009

Optometry jokes

 Those of you who don’t use Facebook won’t have seen the optometry jokes group so here is a glimpse of what you are missing. Sadly not much is the answer, but there are a couple of gems. There is the odd swear word among this selection so if you are of a nervous disposition please go no [...]

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Surrealism rules the waves

Just been delving around in Facebook to see how active Optician’s group is and came across the following video.     Cosmic maaaaaann.

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Where are they now?

Someone once told me that a good salesman makes everything relevant to the product.  Once a J&J salesman always a J&J salesman it seems if this piece is anything to go by.  Were you buying Acuvue contact lenses in the late 1980 in the North of England? It seems the guy that was trying to sell [...]

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It’s just cricket….

I read with some interest today of the England cricket team’s 3-0 destruction of Australia in the Ashes. I can assure you that this was not an archive article or Kevin Pietersen’s discarded plan of action before his messy exit last week. Instead, it was the story of the England blind cricket team beating their Australian counterparts in [...]

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Inmate pulls out eye number two

For those of you who are faint-hearted, turn away now. A Texas inmate, jailed for murdering his wife, his son and his wife’s 13-month-old baby, tore out his only good eye and ate it - five years after tearing out his right eye. Death row inmate Andre Thomas, 25, was found with blood on his face [...]

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My name is Doug

….and I’m here on work experience at Optician for one week in an attempt to kick-start a career in journalism by picking up a few hints and tips that could help me to a long and successful career (I’m trying to be optimistic!) I am currently studying magazine journalism in Portsmouth after two years as [...]

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