WEB WATCH

In the first of a new series (by me of course) here's my guide to some
top sites of the World Wide Web!

Have you ever wondered where you can get your chance to slap a spice girl?
Or where you can find out the lyrics to your favourite song on the internet? 
Then stick around, print this out, or write it on the dog, or ANYTHING!!
So with out further ado let's have a look at the top sites of the day!

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Firstly there's a lot of SPICE hate pages on the internet, 8 of them in fact
on the last count, and more are springing up all the time.  The original
site was the "Spice girls hate organisation", and it is probably the best of
the 8 sites.  Set up by a 17 year old Nottingham boy, who originally decided
to set this up to show his upset with the music industries puppets, and to
do something interesting with his internet space.  And he's done a good job,

Lot's of funny things in here, such as some exclusive photos
of Geri with out the makeup, Victoria before the operation, and Emma looking
a bit horny, as in she's actually got horns, so she's not as nice as she
makes out. Plus the song lyrics to all their songs to date, and some news on
their latest behind the scenes activities, hmmn.  All very well organised,
with some nice pictures, and links to other spice hate pages, so check it
out:

ourworld.compuservecom/homepages/chimera

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Next up in the Spice girls hate movement comes the the imaginatively titled
"Spice girls hate page", set up by Nick & Dave, and there's plenty of
spicist views on here, plus feedback from quite a substantial number of
spice lovers who hurl abuse at Nick and Dave for setting this site up, but
apparently they have had more people who hate the spice girls email them.
But unfortunetly the 'spice hate' feedback page didn't actualy work, so were
they telling us a big sack of porkies?  Probably not, but it still doesn't
work.  The highlight of the site for me, was the top 20 things to do with a
Spice girls CD, well... it say's top 20, but there's almost a hundred of
them, because the readers have their chance to supply additions, and they
have.  Notable things to inflict on your "Say you'll be there" single:

Use it as a frisbee for your pet ferret.
A ring for your middle finger
A toilet flushing tester
Clay pigions at the rod and gun club
Learn to lip-sync in 3 easy lessons using their video
Something to keep vampires away
Something to scare kids away on halloween ( hey you get more sweets your
                                            self that way too)
Or parents could use it as an excuse for their kids to practise their music
intrument playing, "if you don't practise, this will happen to you!"

Overall a great site, highly reccomended:

www.loom.net.au/jub-jub/sghp.htm

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And if you wanted to see what position the latest spice girls offering is
at in the UK charts, then what better place to go than the UK Top 40 site?:

This site has quite a bit on offer, it lists the top 40 selling singles of
the week, the top 20 albums, and the predictions for next week.  It also has
a special history section to show you what the top 20 was looking like, this
week in...  There's also lyrics available for you too see for some of the
more difficult tunes.  Very good:

members.aol.com/dwright330/charts.htm

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And finally, if you are looking for lyrics for a hard to hear song, then
there's a special place on the internet that tells you the lyrics to
thousands of popular songs.  Using simple search techniques it can bring you
the lyrics to your fave songs onto your screen, so then you can be one of
these annoying people who goes around correcting people when they're singing
a song incorrectly, but what on Earth are the lyircs for "DJ Supreme"?

Not surpsingly that song isn't on this site.  But notoriously difficult
songs to distinguish such as Manfred Mans Earth band with Blinded by the
light are on here, so it's worth checking.  It uses simple searching as
well, so you can either enter just the title of the song, or a word from the
title, or the artist, or even the album the songs from, and it will bring
up all matches it has.  Definately a top site:

www.lyrics.com

That's it for now, more top sites soon, oh what?  You want to know where
you can slap a spice girl?  Ok then :

www.head-space.com/urban75/spice.html

I'm waiting for the addition where the spice girls slap back, so then
you can literally say that Geri's a slapper with out the fear of getting into
trouble.  Back next ish of RIPMAG for more great sites! (hopefully)

Dan Wood

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