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By hook or by crook, we'll hook up with this hooker looker.

Learning curves: get your hooks into the lingo like a good hooker

“Hook” is a word oft heard in media companies. “What’s the hook to this story?” an editor might ask a reporter, meaning: what about the article is relevant, topical, timeous and of wide general public interest?

Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev.

The gory bells have rung for a leader with balls of iron

Late former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has been widely lauded this week for his contribution to world peace.

The Chinese community in SA can't be blamed for anything except some interesting words.
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Ketchup session: to chow with the chinas or chuck tomatoes at the shogun?

One of my favourite lame jokes (and I do so love lame jokes) involves a small tomato with short legs who is lagging behind the rest of his family as they make their way to a hot-dog stall.

Unscramblerer.com found that gaslighting had 36,300 monthly searches
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A cultured look at cults and cultivators

My friend and colleague Jennifer Platt, who is books editor for the Sunday Times, wrote a column recently about her obsession with cults and books about cults. There do seem to be rather a lot of these about, mainly written by those who…

A study has shown dogs are better adapted than cats to a plant-based diet.
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Plant-protein flesh-point: one man’s pie is another woman’s cutlet

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Stick your neck out for these rock ’n rollers, you awkward turtle

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The late Howard Hesseman played ‘Doctor’ Johnny Fever in cult series ‘WKRP in Cincinnati’.
If you want a hectic TV show, go vintage for fever.
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Are you hectic with cold sweats? If not, it’s a mutation at work

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Buster Keaton, Hollywood's first and still greatest stuntman.
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Stunt in the hand: to watch a big leap over writer’s block, just say the word

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‘Snogging’ was once as innocent as this: how can it be a swear word?
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SUE DE GROOT | P*ss off with that kiss-off, and if that’s giving lip, snog my a*s!

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Bat-eared foxes thrive at the De Hoop Collection lodge in the Western Cape.
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Memory to myth: that foxy salesman let the djinn out of the bottle

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'Sonic the Hedgehog'.
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All a writer needs is a quill, but I got the whole hedgehog

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The best thing to do after a molar extraction is to zonk out.
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Tooth of the matter is, the biting incident left dents on the dentist

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THIRSTY: Phakamisa Township residents are still suffering after their taps ran dry in January.
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We’re a bit rusty, but that doesn’t mean we’re all dead (or rotten)

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Former Kaizer Chiefs coach Stuart Baxter.
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Few are called but many are so-called — or so they allegedly say

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Remind me why we’re back here — or never mind, it’s just a revolution

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