I think you could make a film or novel about it being a hoax…but the astronauts weren’t in on it
So they were actually in a really good simulator, and they’d somehow managed to fake the weightlessness etc
If anyone wants to turn this into a blockbuster I’ll have 10%
Would it be fair to say Mamma Mia is a mainly English version of Bollywood musical?
There isn’t much plot…and I bet they really wanted Madonna but it’s got funnier lines, more interesting arrangements and song choices, and better singing I think
I seemed to have something in my eye at times too
As far as I’m concerned, number one on the list of sequels-that-are-better-than-the-original
AL Rowse: “Have you ever noticed, what an extraordinary thing it is, that men of very great genius often think absolute rubbish”
This should be the reply every time anybody quotes anybody
Anecdotes about, among others, CS Lewis and TS Eliot from AL Rowse
Sounds exactly like you would hope it would
Mamma Mia
Yes, I went again
My, my
I really, really enjoyed it t.co/8FT11PVka…
73% of the people I surveyed think that 97% of the 52% were just having a laugh twitter.com/thismorni…
#TodayILearned that, at Sansovino, Sarri “was nicknamed Mr 33 because that was the number of set-piece routines he expected his players to memorise”
#cfc #utc #ktbffh www.theguardian.com/football/…
The Holy Grail has been found.
Well, bits of it have
Listening to John Cleese on Desert Island Discs, I was reminded that his dad changed one letter in his original surname, ‘Cheese’, because he was fed up of people taking the mickey
I should have thought of that
I’m about halfway through @ShippersUnbound book, and it’s very good
The thing that strikes me about it is how little there is in it, so far, of Theresa May
Tom Hanks: “I watch what I eat to a point of boredom and every now and again I cheat to the point of self-loathing”
Trying to test if a bit of text contains a backtick in #Powershell, I couldn’t get -like “``” to work, but this seems to:
if ($Line.Contains('`'))
The bit in brackets is single quote, back-tick, single quote
#TodayILearned
I think this was the show i went to, but I’m pretty sure that the Virgin Prunes dint play
I saw Kathy Acker perform once, supporting Psychic TV
Would have been much more fun if she’d been on with the Spice Girls
BBC podcast about a 1990s @guardian interview
More interesting than you might think!
#TodayILearned that ‘COBRA’ (as in the government emergency committee) stands for ‘Cabinet Office Briefing Room A’
I guess it’s handy that it sounds a bit ‘James Bond’
(via @shippersunbound book about about Theresa May etc)
RT @R_C_Woodward: Simone Weil observed that “attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
RT @amyohconnor: If cannabis is ever legalised in Ireland, I’m going to move to Clare and open a cannabis café called Spliffs of Moher