Subject line: 'You have a secret admirer!'

Recipients: multiple.

Not that I'd click on their link even if it were addressed solely to me.

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And more generally in the world of romance desperation, that ad in the FB sidebar for 'faithful and devoted' men for a second-chance romance, is now explicitly touting policemen in that category.

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On account of, well, long week and jetlag, things which are probably not going to get worked up into full posts.

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This government thing about sending every school in the land a copy of the Authorised Version (King James Bible)? WTF? Point what is there?

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One of the essays in Whedonistas, by a UKian person, says that Sunnydale High reminds her ( Read more... )

What I'm really thinking: the Botox user: 'It does give me quiet satisfaction that I have this slightly shocking secret'

(This is a 'shocking secret' that can go right up there with Time Out's staff's 'guilty pleasures'. I.e., as it 'you don't get out much, do you?')

But aside from that
I could never tell my partner; he would hate the idea.... He ( Read more... )

Gratifying to relate, this
forget-me-not panties will help protect the women in your life!
was a hoax. However, less gratifying to relate
Thousands of men from all over the world tried to buy our panties... and they were not alone. Lots of women begged us to make Forget Me Not Boxers ( Read more... )

Had a reasonable if slightly restless night and awoke to thunder and torrential rain in Chicago.

Foregathered with
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Q: How many historians does it take to change a light bulb? by David Leeson.

Do I have to say that It's All More Complicated? (and that the question of archival sources needs to be addressed when endeavouring to answer it?)

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Fair daffodils...

Has anyone not seen this yet about the police called in when children were spotted picking daffodils in ( Read more... )

Apparently someone has been expressing concerns that if they go to Wiscon, the PC police may pounce on them if they do something wrong.

Well, okay, actually most people at Wiscon have other things to do and concerns of their own on their mind...

And it then struck me that this is simply a subset of a much wider social anxiety phenomenon which it ( Read more... )

I have known really ever since I got the invite that it would rain today. Because obviously, after a spell of dry weather, the unveiling of an English Heritage blue plaque (which by its nature takes place en plein air), to which I am bidden, is clearly Anglo-Saxon Rain Magic.

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Further to the Euston TimeWarp Mystery: London Underground have ( Read more... )

Found this while googling around for details on a crime scene near the tube station over the weekend (large bits of road blocked off, many police persons standing around): Lisa Jardine on the creation of panic through misleading statistics and indeed, the potential outcome of self-fulfilling prophecy.

A wonder! a wonder! a journalist who totally ( Read more... )