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Julia from London has a tip for the poor young fellow in AMT232:

I empathised with Steve and his friend’s deleted photos of Paris – I deleted everything off my camera’s memory card AS I was backing it up! But then I found out there is a free programme you can use to “undelete” them and get them back! It’s called Pandora Recovery.

Apparently it will work better if you use it quite quickly so that you haven’t saved new photos over the old ghost files – but it worked perfectly for me and I got about 50 photos back!

Hurry Steve, there is not a moment to lose! You may yet be able to recover that photo where you’ve used perspective to make it look like your friend is wearing the Eiffel Tower like a hat.

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Apropos of last week‘s discussion of school photos, Annahid from California writes:

In America every child must have an annual, updated school picture in case the child is kidnapped. That way there’s a recent and well-lit photo to put on the “MISSING” poster.

Are American schoolchildren really that likely to be kidnapped? Because this seems like a very expensive and labour-intensive method of ensuring there’s something to put on the sides of the milk cartons.

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AMT returns tomorrow, but a couple of matters are left over from the end of the last series. Firstly, Richard writes:

Apropos of the AMT228 reference to Polo Ralph Lauren.

While this may be of no interest to your listeners, I feel I need to tell you so that should we pass in the street and I’m wearing my normal “uniform” of polo shirt/Levi combo you don’t think I’m a skank.

As if we would! What could be posher than somebody walking around covered in an entire polo team?

Next, Shelley from Richmond, Virginia:

I can tell you in no uncertain terms that your interpretation of R. Kelly’s Remix to Ignition song is badly, horribly, hilariously wrong.

When he says, “It’s like Murder She Wrote, once I get you out them clothes,” he’s saying something much more violently sexual than “my sex game is so mysterious.”

And when he says, “food everywhere, as if the party was catered,” it’s because his music is FOR the lower middle class. That’s who is supposed to hear these lyrics and think to themselves, “Hey, I can relate to R. Kelly. I know that feel, bro. I, too, can throw a party with food. Everyone will be very impressed and the panties will drop. I, myself, will destroy genitalia! This music is my life.”

Hmm. I’m not sure I fully agree with this hypothesis, but it certainly is a very spirited argument.

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Henry has kindly written in to help prevent the hippies from ruining questioneer Sage’s friend’s hot beverages:

This should help the listener who needs the unbreakable mug:

Thermos Base Camp SS Mug with Lid

Let us know whether that mug can survive a few rounds with the hippies, Sage. In fact, buy a range of different mugs, keep a spreadsheet of how each model fares over a few months in the squat, then in a few months try to get your findings published in an academic journal. I’m sure they’ve all been waiting for a comparative study of mugs versus hippies.

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“Yikes! I think I just saw Gerard Butler skulking in the corner.”

Apparently if you’re born ugly, you’re allowed to act like a total dick! That’s what we have learnt from today’s lesson in classic French literature from Chris from Cardiff, Australia:

In AMT225, you discussed whether the Phantom is good or evil.

I can’t speak for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s intentions, but having read the original novel by Gaston Leroux I can say that his impression of Erik (the Phantom) is that he was a genius driven to a violent distrust of humanity resulting from being so hideously deformed from birth, and thus that his actions were the result of desperation. Erik’s actions were undoubtedly evil, but nevertheless he deserves to be pitied for the life he was forced to lead by society:

Of course, it’s hardly surprising that he turned out evil… There aren’t many “good guys” who would build a vast underground forest out of iron in which people could hang themselves or be baked alive.

Good point, Chris, but we should also bear in mind that anybody who decides to spend considerable time and resources building a fancy subterrannean torture chamber is probably evil beforehand, rather than becoming so as a result of having access to such a place.

Unless the Phantom did have perfectly innocent reasons for building it. Perhaps he had expected the baking-hot room with the iron trees would be the perfect place in which to dry his laundry. Even ugly opera ghosts should have the right to wear underwear that isn’t damp!

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The father of AMT223‘s Nick from Orpington is not the only one of you to be falsely accused of murder! Please tell us in the comments whether you have been too – and take note of the keyword FALSELY – after reading this tale from Neil from Cornwall:

Several years ago I was in a car park in North Wales in my capacity as a sales rep. Having parked my car, I saw a police officer making her way slowly towards me and braced myself for the obvious, “You can’t park here”, or maybe “Is this your car, sir?”

Also, being from Cornwall…..OF COURSE you put the jam on the scone first and put the cream on the top… why would you do it the other way around!

Jam first? That’s exactly what a murderer would say, Neil. I’m forwarding your email straight on to the Cornish Police.

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