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The new feature of London's skyline

For those of you who have NOT been to London lately, they've built a new skyscraper.
It won international awards. It has floodlights with greenish tinge playing on it at night.
The Londoners, god love them, could not decide if they should mock it for looking like a marital aid or for looking like a pickle, and in a beauty of the portmanteau insult, they have unofficially christened it 'The Erotic Gherkin'.
Here is a Londoner's blog entry on the building, with a good picture of this weird thing.
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    So at the show I went to last night, I'm pretty sure that 1 of the 2 people I spotted who were older than me was the father of someone in the band…

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