May 2010
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May 31st
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May 31st
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“I’m Scottish. Frying things and pessimism are our two main industries.”
– Fraser Speirs
May 29th
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“Mrs Landingham just asked Charlie if he was going to join The Glee Club at...”
– Twitter / lizo mzimba
May 28th
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Stephen Fry: What I Wish I’d Known When I was 18. Interview by Peter Samuelson.
May 28th
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“The Psalms are wonderful because they’re so intensely human. They’re...”
– John Rutter
May 28th
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“Pursue thy conquest, Love; her eyes confess the flame her tongue denies.”
– Belinda, Dido & Aeneas.
May 27th
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“Hearts full of youth. Hearts full of truth. Six parts gin to one part vermouth!”
– The indomitable Tom Lehrer.
May 27th
The West Wing #603, "Third Day Story"
CJ: Do me a favour, because I'd like to see you live past the age of twelve. Stay off junk for the rest of the week. See if you can survive on, you know, food, and I'll cook you dinner this weekend.
Josh: Wearing an apron and one of those floppy hats?
CJ: Wearing anything you like... I mean... You know perfectly well what I mean!
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May 20th
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Mrs. Doctor Abby, First Lady Doctor
Abbey: Ok, Elmo. It’s time for your vaccination and I’m going to give you a little injection.
Elmo: But Mrs. Doctor Abbey, First Lady Doctor, will it hurt Elmo?
Abbey: Well, maybe just a tiny little bit, but it’s very important.
Elmo: Wait a minute. Didn’t you give up your medical license? Do you have a diploma you could show Elmo?
May 20th
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May 20th
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“Have you ever seen one of these grant applications? We’re lucky Einstein...”
– Jed Bartlet on NIH grants. The West Wing #516: “Eppur Si Muove”.
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May 19th
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The West Wing #513, "The Warfare of Genghis Khan".
Leo: My generation never got the future it was promised... Thirty-five years later, cars, air travel is exactly the same. We don't even have the Concorde anymore. Technology stopped.
Josh: The personal computer...
Leo: A more efficient delivery system for gossip and pornography? Where's my jetpack, my colonies on the Moon?
May 19th
May 17th
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May 17th
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“You know you’re in trouble when the Russians are adding safety features to...”
– A Rocket To Nowhere
May 17th
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“Chinese students are still required to study Marx, so it is perhaps worth...”
– What has triggered the suicide cluster at Foxconn? – Telegraph Blogs
May 16th
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“Is the present war a struggle for a just and secure peace, or only for a new...”
– Address of President Woodrow Wilson to the U.S. Senate, 22 January 1917.
May 15th
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“Wisdom is in the presence of the one who has understanding, but the eyes of a...”
– King Solomon From “Six quotes on digging deep” by John D. Cook
May 14th
Study Reveals Dolphins Lack Capacity To Mock... →
The Onion: “Frankly, this is shocking,” said Professor Michael Hodges, lead author of the study. “Given their impressive brain-to-body ratio, we believed dolphins would be capable of trashing Lady Gaga, or at the very least, succeed in rolling their eyes at Kendra Wilkinson’s post-baby weight gain. Instead, all we observed were blank, snarkless stares.”
May 13th
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ListenAndante Festivo, Op. 117a. Jean Sibelius, 1922....
May 13th
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“This is the true joy of life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by...”
– George Bernard Shaw. (via Rumours of Angels)
May 13th
May 12th
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“Pipe down, lefties”
– Henrietta
May 11th
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May 11th
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May 11th
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“If you’re enthusiastic about the things you’re working on, people will come ask...”
– James Woolsey From “Six quotes on digging deep” by John D. Cook
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May 8th
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“A decade ago my colleague Dennis Kavanagh and I wrote that No 10 should...”
– The Heart of Power - Anthony Seldon writes in Prospect on the need for a major refit of Downing Street.
May 8th
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“Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might …”
– King Solomon From “Six quotes on digging deep” by John D. Cook
May 8th
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I’d vote for Baldrick, MP
May 6th
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“To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold...”
– William Blake From “Six quotes on digging deep” by John D. Cook
May 6th
Teux Deux FAQs
Q: Is it true that TeuxDeux is the 16th greatest invention of all time?
A: Yes.
Q: What are the other 15 greatest inventions?
A: We can’t go into detail, but we can say that #6 is Nutella.
May 4th
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“There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that...”
– G. K. Chesterton From “Six quotes on digging deep” by John D. Cook
May 4th
Herefordshire asparagus with a bottle of Prosecco. Risotto di Dolcetto con funghi e fagiolini with a GB Burlotto 2008 Dolcetto. Chocolate tart, strawberries and cream with a De Bortoli 2005 Noble One Botrytis Semillon. Grappa and dark chocolate. Yum.
May 3rd
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“… nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough …”
– Richard Feynman From “Six quotes on digging deep” by John D. Cook
May 2nd
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A simply sublime instrumental arrangement of Thomas Tallis’ motet If Ye Love Me. If ye love me, keep my commandments, and I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another comforter, that he may ‘bide with you forever, e’en the spirit of truth. — Communion Antiphon for the Sixth Sunday of Easter. John 14:15–17. Arranged by David Bruce,...
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