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An exercise in self-delusion.


Byline: By Denise Robertson

Each week I try to introduce a little light relief into what could otherwise become one long moan. This week I'm darned darned  
adj.
Damned.

Adj. 1. darned - expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or
 if I can find anything to laugh about ( except that a group of English women say they have reclaimed re·claim  
tr.v. re·claimed, re·claim·ing, re·claims
1. To bring into or return to a suitable condition for use, as cultivation or habitation: reclaim marshlands; reclaim strip-mined land.
 pole dancing as a non-sexual form of exercise.

Twenty of them are shaking it all about to set the world record for the most simultaneous pole dancers ever.

Such determination. Such vision. Non-sexual? Such self-delusion.
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Publication:The Journal (Newcastle, England)
Date:Sep 12, 2006
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