#TodayILearned that Reuben and Richard were once seen as country, bumpkin-ish names and they were shortened to, respectively, ‘Rube’ and ‘Hick’
The podcast was very interesting on the British roots of the modern Olympics…..I was also pleased to hear a reference to the lack of funding of British basketball compared to “the sitting down sports” of sailing, horse-riding, rowing and cycling.
“Yet let us all together to our troops, And give them leave to fly that will not stay; And call them pillars that will stand to us; And, if we thrive, promise them such rewards As victors wear at the Olympian games:”
#TodayILearned that the first known reference to the Olympics, in English, is in Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Part 3
(via @thehistoryguy and @HistoryMartin) play.acast.com/s/dansnow…
Given how much he’s made me laugh over the years I can’t help finding this quite sad
RT @salisbury_matt: #OnThisDay in 1786 Jarvis Matcham met the ghost of the Dead Drummer who he had previously murdered on Salisbury Plain h…
RT @salisbury_matt: #OntThisDay in 1786 Jarvis Matcham met the ghost of the Dead Drummer on Salisbury Plain. www.exclassics.com/ingold/in… https:…
I only just learnt about the ‘Leader’ key in vim (via @jovica’s Mastering Vim Quickly book) and I get a disproportionate amount of satisfaction from using Spare Bar - b to trigger one of my macro’s.
RT @salisbury_matt: #OnThisDay in 1963 the 4-piece band called @TheBeatles played @CityHallSalis
RT @salisbury_matt: #OnThisDay in 1215 King John assented to the Magna Carta www.salisburycathedral.org.uk/magna-car…
Starmer back on storming form
Johnson, the Conservative Corbyn flailing and failing
in my opinion
#pmqs
They were Hungarier
#EngHun
is Schafer knackered? I can’t tell whether or not #ENGHUN
My phrase of the day today is ‘I should coco’
My word of the day today is ‘tryst’.
Enjoying this…it makes mw wish I was doing the Great Bristol Run again this yearA
The Outlaws, Series 1: Episode 1: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/e… via @bbciplayer
As I’ve said before it’s always nice to hear a West Country accent on the telly that’s not Phil Harding or Ian Holloway
Although as I’ve also said before, when I’m in Bristol I often instinctively feel people are taking the mickey of the way I talk
My lovers.
#TodayILearned that Greek Fire was a flame-throwing sort of weapon
I saw it in a book (maybe Donna Tartt?) and thought it was just a passion for ancient Greece
It was mentioned in passing in @gm6016’s discussion with @thehistoryguy about Robin Hood
They say at one point that each generation has it’s Robin Hood
This one was mine’s
