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Thought of the morning: Beyond Belief doesn’t ever stray particularly far beyond belief, does it. This makes it the anti-Ronseal of brands… “does everything save what it says on the tin” is rather less snappy, and I see why they haven’t chosen it for their tagline.

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Weird Science made me think about ethics, not Kelly LeBrock.

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In a rare show of unity, everyone announced today that everyone else was hideously corrupt, whilst pocketing a fat brown envelope. Used fivers spilling out of their pockets, everyone was quick to point out that that other person over there, that shifty looking one, had definitely stuffed one of the tenners falling out of their [...]

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Our Staff, Everywhere Today, everyone everywhere came together in a rare show of unity to warn that everything was now worse than it had ever been before, except for that other time when it was even worse, only it might be as bad as that already. Everyone agreed that, on balanced and mature reflection, it [...]

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via Queerty

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I am 72 hours from Denver and I have just come down with a stinking cold and I am stuffy and miserable and generally afflicted with manflu. A malison upon the common cold! Just doing my duty….

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

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I can’t quite believe I have allowed things to progress this far without sharing with you the joy of Delia’s Toasties, mentioning it only in passing in an earlier post. Let me therefore correct that error… For those of you who enjoyed “Tuna and Pasta Bake, Oh My!”, here’s the original from which I shamelessly [...]

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If I ever grow significant facial hair again, send me this link.

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Sat quietly here in Darklooks Mansions, I have been completely unable to get out of my head the snippet of doggerel Ethel Meaker came out with to explain Nadia Popov’s dangerous hayfever to, I think, some native American ghosts who, just to really lay the cultural understanding on thick, could only speak in Longfellowesque trochaic [...]

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