Friday some, no, I've made it to five
Dept of did she actually say that: Expression employed by one of the trainers at the gym during the week: 'I've got a memory like a fish'. I've never heard that before and am not sure whether it's an idiom I just hadn't encountered, based on what I believe researchers have proved is a scurrilous myth about goldfish and their memories, or whether it's based on a mishearing or misremembering of the expression 'memory like a sieve'.
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Dept of unexpectedly larfing liek drayne, and at work at that: Bangable Dudes in History.
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Dept of heritage in miniature: model village gets Grade II listed status.
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Dept of Cool People one only discovers when they die and one comes across their obituary: Bi Kidude, Zanzibari Taraab singer: fascinating further account.
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Dept of the price of everything and the value of nothing, while doubtless thinking it's all online now and that's just as good (if so, why is it worth a potential £50 million?): Field Museum may be planning to sell rare books. SIGH.
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