It really annoys me when I see someone talking about an event happening "in just three short months" or bemoaning that it's "three long weeks" till they see their boyfriend.

How does a long month or a short month, pray, differ from an ordinary one?

Don't these people read George Orwell on the use of ready-made hackneyed phrases?

I swear that the next person who posts that bloody clip of Susan bloody Boyle bloody singing is going to be off my friends list ( Read more... )

Music GCE A Level: 8 February 2008

Question 1 (20 marks)

Compare and contrast Weird Al Yankovic's "Angry White Boy Polka" with Bill Bailey's "Greatest Cockney Rock Album In The World... Ever." Pay especial attention to each artiste's use of their respective culture's traditional musical formats.

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(Namely a fanfare of trumpets and angelic harps)

Happy birthday arakinuk

Last night I dreamt that I had been elected as a local councillor for the Labour party ( Read more... )

Would the poem in my last post be better if it ended:

"I'm glad I am a poet.
My god! perhaps I'm not."

Observe the happy poet!
He's composed an epigram.
I wish I were a poet.
My god! perhaps I am.

Found this week on the ever-amusing b3ta.com:

"My friend says that if she died in a car accident, she wouldn't want bunches of flowers [tied to the nearest street furniture], as her opinion of them is similar to yours. Instead she wants a giant statue of her saying "SLOW DOWN" as it moves its arm up and down in the style of a traffic policeman."

Be ( Read more... )

Thanks to loganberrybunny for drawing to my attention this BBC poll in which we are invited to rank Britain's twelve post World War II prime ministers in order of their ability -- but in order for your vote to be counted you must score all twelve.

This is the sort of debate I could engage in till the cows come home, so I'm reposting my answer ( below this cut )

Grab the nearest book. Find the 5th sentence on page 23. Append it to the paragraph below. Append your name to the list below of people who have contributed to the paragraph. Post the result to your LJ ( Read more... )