dark looks

A selection of phrases which have flitted through my mind but not made their way into actual verbal expression for one reason or another today:

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Sunday morning discovered me slumped in front of the goggle box after a splendid bash, looking for something I could use to keep my eyes occupied for ten minutes. I found a curious factoid-laden thing about Dolly Parton, which as you would expect mentioned Dollywood. In my hypnagogic state, my mind wandered off after [...]

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I’d quite like this image taken from my online banking thingy to be a lot more accurate than it really is…

USians will call this a trillion, UKians who’ve been paying attention will have been calling this a trillion since 1974, and all you lovely Europeople will call it a billion.
When I hit refresh, I [...]

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via Queerty

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Spotted this as I planned my escape route from Denver into the Rockies for next week….

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… that I didn’t go out and buy a Sony PRS-505 the other day. If I had, I’d have been tempted to eschew Sony and Waterstones’ generous promise that prices will be “Much the same as normal paperbacks” by finding a copy of, say, Neal Stephenson’s new opus Anathem on a site like Fictionwise (because [...]

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