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Do Over: Beverly Hills, 90210
I was three when Beverly Hills, 90210 first aired in 1990 and by the time it ended in 2000, my parents were still telling me I wasn’t allowed to watch such a salacious show at my impressionable age....
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Top Ten Obsolete Things That We Miss
It’s a techy world we live in. Small children have smart phones; FaceTime, once a social concept, is now an app; you can order your dinner off the internet and set your Skybox to record. It’s deadly....
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Do Over: My So-Called Life
If you want a sure-fire way to know if a fellow human being, or a female one anyway, is a potential BFF, there are only two little words you need to whisper in her ear: Jordan Catalano. If her eyes...
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Top Ten Nineties Cartoons
The Nineties were truly a Golden Age for cartoons. Other decades produced some great shows (the Eighties gave us Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and The Simpsons), but it was during this decade that a...
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Mr. Motivator – The Electric Picnic Interview!
Never a bunch to stray from their obligations, Electric Ireland, Official Energy Partner to Electric Picnic, have this year come up with the concept of Dancergy, an energy-creating dance floor...
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Get Her Style: Gwen Stefani
Gwen Stefani is the pinnacle of fashion and fierceness. Bursting onto the scene with her band No Doubt, she established herself as the go-to girl for punk-rock fashion. Gwen has the best body in the...
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Top Ten Ridiculous Boy Band Photos
Legal Note: By the time you reach the end of this post, it becomes NSFW. You have been warned and you must accept our deepest apologies. Boy bands are magical creatures. They can make any girl (or boy)...
View ArticleFeature: Crying At The Movies – A Guide To Your Tears
It is a rare creature that never cries at movies. As cynical, tough or stubborn as you are, films are designed to launch multi-pronged attacks on your composure – through story, speech, music or vision...
View ArticleRamp Legend Wall: Mary Robinson
Halfway through her stint as President of Ireland, in 1994, Mary Robinson had an unheard of approval rating of 93%. Perhaps it was the fact that she had made something real and important of a...
View ArticleMovies: 17 Reasons We’re Still Talking About Clueless 17 Years On
Warning: in case you’re the one person on Earth who hasn’t seen this movie, the following article contains spoilers. Recently, the cast of Clueless got together to reminisce about the much-loved movie...
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Top Ten Treehouse of Horror Sketches
One of the many highlights of Halloween is the annual Treehouse of Horror episode of The Simpsons. Children return home from a successful trick-or-treat trip to sit in front of the TV, empty their bags...
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Cult Caravan: Buffy The Vampire Slayer
A high school comedy about vampires, many years before Twilight made them uncool? Check. David Arquette rockin’ fangs? Check. A totally hot, blonde cheerleader who kicks ass and defends her boyfriend...
View ArticleTop Ten TV Theme Songs
You’re making your dinner, running to the loo, standing over the kettle waiting for it to boil, or hurriedly trying to end an ill-timed phone call – and the first few bars filter through from the...
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Do Over: Into The West
Into The West was released in 1992. It was an exciting but bloody serious time, just before the Boom, long before anyone had ever heard of Moneygall, and right about the time a nation’s irreverence...
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Cult Caravan: Reservoir Dogs
Quentin Tarantino made his mark as a director in 1992 with Reservoir Dogs and began a downward spiral into whatever the hell he’s doing now. Yes, that’s awfully dismissive. No, we’re not sorry....
View ArticleFeature: The 40 Worst Songs Ever To Top The Irish Chart
This list started life as one of Ramp.ie’s delightfully thorough Top Tens, but it turns out there are simply far too many terrible songs that Ireland, a country with profoundly bad taste in all things,...
View ArticleMovies: Brittany Murphy
When news broke of Brittany Murphy’s death in December 2009, the memorial pictures that flashed up on TV and computer screens showed a person who bore a blurry resemblance to the Brittany Murphy in...
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Christmas: Eleven Toys You Wanted For Christmas… And The Shit You Got Instead
Christmas is a time for counting one’s blessings, for giving presents, and for contented nostalgia. None of those takes that long, though, so a sizeable proportion of the time you have left is given to...
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Do Over: Home Alone
Macaulay Culkin tends to pop up in the news these days, looking a little pale and thin while assorted journalists and ‘sources close to the child star’ worry about his well-being. Which is strange....
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Feature: Twenty Things That Are Twenty Now
It’s 2013! Do you feel old yet? No? We can help with that. Here are twenty things that are twenty this year. Boyzone You had a sticker of Ronan Keating on the inside of your homework journal and...
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