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Well yes, Jupiter was in alignment with Orion so the loafers mean you'll fing ice-cream today
Am unfeasibly pleased to now be living under the mitten. But then I am also extremely tired.
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That place needs a psammead
The Boston Globe's Big Picture round-up focused on the Dakar rally last week. Beautiful photos. As ever. Something so lonely and unlikely about motorbikes racing across sand dunes.
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I'd like it even more if it never stopped moving, like a Java shark
Oh lawks, just found this Tumblr: Things people don't say about advertising (tbdsaa)
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RT: Overheard
Jason John Whitehead is on a train to Nottingham.
He just overheard this: "I realise he lost consciousness but my doctor says it means my bowels are healthy, pass us a WKD Janine".
Suddenly grateful for all I have. -
Giving It ALL Tonight
Look! An illustration of an obscure word from Polly Law's book that's yet to be released! With a dinosaur in it! DANCING!
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Young person's vernacular; funtimes
Have just learnt two things, by one neatorama post:
1) the phrase "photo bomb" is a way of describing a humorous and unintentional distraction from the central focus of the picture
2) seals have an innate sense of comic timing
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Attention-holding silent slapstick. Excellent excellent lemon excellent.
The Matrix, had it been Russian, 6 minutes long and starred Charlie Chaplin:
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Alternatively, he was going to use his Lilliputian firehose.
Saturday 30 June, 1666
Samuel Pepys used a parenthetical aside to slam the Lord Mayor. His diary records that Sir Thomas Bludworth is "a silly man, I think".
Sunday 2 September, 1666
Bludworth is woken and told of the start of the Great Fire. He insists "a woman might piss it out". Pepys proven right.
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