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1. Personalised number plates

2. Chart music ring tones

3. Throwing the bouquet

4. Technophobia. Particularly dissing social networking websites because you feel pressured by them

5. Calling your mobile phone your ‘moby’

6. The assumption that there’s only one path to fulfilment/enlightenment/spiritualness

7. Teetotalling for non-medical reasons

8. Hen’s nights that involve veils or any kind of retarded headgear

9. Linguistic snobbery

10. Any form of evangelism, religious or no

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When he first took the stage last Wednesday, Paul Barry seemed pretty sick of talking about his latest book, Who Wants to be a Billionaire. He was speaking at its Brisbane launch hosted by West End’s Avid Reader book shop.

It seemed reasonable, really. Who wouldn’t be sick of it after the media stormlet that centred on it over the last few weeks? (The whirlwind subsided once the book was released and people actually read it.)