Hamsters celebrating VAR disal lowing the goal like they’ve scored one themselves
#WHUMCI
This is the film
‘Miss Morison’ was Moberly’s pen name used for the first 3 or 4 editions of the book
#OnThisDay in 1901 1901, Annie Moberly, daughter of George Moberly the Bishop of Salisbury, saw Marie Antoinette in the gardens at Versailles.
She co-wrote a bestselling book about it, and there was a film in the 1970s with Hannah Gordon
Kylie, surely?
Dominic Cummings.
Presumably now ‘Russia’s greatest love machine’
#TodayILearned that ‘etymology’ is derived from ‘etymon’ meaning ‘true meaning’
It is itself an example of ‘the etymological fallacy’ - that the historical derivation of a word necessarily helps understand what it now means
I think
Via @D_Shariatmadari
The Labour strategy of ‘constructive ambiguity’…..it could turn out to be quite destructive in the end, couldn’t it?
Memo to the National Lottery
Adverts just featuring people talking about stuff don’t really work in a medium where people generally have the sound turned off
Like twitter
Today I have been mainly forgetting to re-import the module after ‘fixing’ the code….and failing to notice that I have mis-spelt ‘latest’ as ‘lastest’
Neither of these has been improving my mood very much
“..told all the government’s special advisors that if they leaked anything to the newspapers, he would personally intervene to find out who they are and then sack them. So terrified were they of this news that it was itself leaked within about 10 minutes”
“You’re have to be reasonably clever to understand how stupid you actually are”
- either Fi Glover or Jane Garvey (it took me several years to work out which one was Ant and which one was Dec)
#OnThisDay in 1983 Black Sabbath released their LP ‘Born Again’. It featured a song called ‘Stonehenge’, which inspired a rather wonderful @Clonehenge-y stage set
Or I’ll scream and scream and scream
Annual tweet to say that I’m sorry I was late back after lunch but I was busy eating my own bodyweight in blackberries
My word of the day today is ‘resonate’
#OnThisDay in 1903 Buffalo Bill brought his Wild West show to Salisbury
#OnThisDay in 1723 William Stukeley recorded his observation of the @EH_Stonehenge cursus
“As we transition into a parallel universe of a Johnson government running purely on the fumes of propaganda, watch the pound. It will be your lie detector test.”
#BrexitMetaphorOfTheDay
Jogged past the old house last night
It was much bigger when I was 5
#OnThisDay in 1873 between 20,000 and 25,000 people came to Wilton Foresters’ Fete to see the great tightrope walker Blondin walk a 60ft high tightrope.
Admission was 1 shilling
Blondin cooked and ate bacon and eggs on the rope