His books always seemed to come out around election time, almost as if he were using a potential candidacy as a reason to go on chat shows and talk about his latest proposal to outsource Medicare to Mars or give fat people tax credits for gastric bands.

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On match days I sit in the stand and have a chat with Brendan about his team talk ahead of half-time.

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They have set up over 30, 000 chat rooms worldwide to organise parties, talk about hobbies, play games or trade pictures of Pamela Anderson.

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They would often talk about each other's families, about their own activities and other chit-chat.

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And talk about the results on Facebook and in chat rooms?

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They also set up a chat room so that people could make observations about them and talk to them online.

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He appeared on the Ellen DeGeneres chat show in the US in front of a TV audience of millions to talk frankly about his so-called "coming out" experience.

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Web television turned out to be the perfect medium for me: I could talk about a game on air, and the viewers could talk back to me on chat.

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