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Thursday 27 February 2014
Double-take, # 51
The BBC doling out misinformation in series 4 of Shaun the Sheep:
Edited from screenshot of BBC iPlayer 21 February 2014.
Information now replaced by subsequent programming information
As Des Pond of Slough observes, a spider is not an insect. a spider is not an insect
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