Huh - that's what Henry Mancini looked like. I love this tune youtu.be/jIMTMb4iJ1I?...

Asimov's Fourth Law of Robotics: Have fun!

What I've learned from the Césars tonight is that in France, the Mask doesn't say "Ssssmoking!!" he says "Splendiiiide!!"

May your favourite US sitcom last long after their hair gets good, but finish before their faces get weird 🙏

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Watching the programme on BBC2 with Ian McKellen lip syncing to a recording of LS Lowry being interviewed, while dressed as him. Such a good idea and so well done

Red button option to watch any episode of Ghosts through Mike's eyes. Occasional tappings and flickerings in an otherwise quiet house

Been nearly two years since I saw this magic lantern slide and I still occasionally think about these two figures, sailing through the night together for over two centuries...

She's ferocious and she knows just What it takes to make a pro blush She's got wraparound shades to protect the sides Of her Bette Davis eyes

If I want my child to get into the Winter Olympics I'll make sure they eat their crusts, because they make your heir curl

Broad City - Alan Alda de-stressing Abbi by helping her book an online appointment at the DMV instead of queuing, and also curing her back pain. Just thinking about this scene makes me feel safe and happy

The ups and downs and sides of Terry Wogan's voice

In countries where films in English are dubbed into the local language, when people do impressions of Robert De Niro etc, do they do impressions of the regular voice actor, or just stick to mannerisms and not bother getting the voice right?

One of the greatest bollard walks in history. #WorldBollardAssociation

There are trompes everywhere for those with the l'œils to see

Oh wow, I'm not religious but that's a moving photo: the reporter overcome and kneeling

More very surprising TV facts to follow the Dalziel and Pascoe revelations from a few days ago. Excellent thread

Very good, and so far as I can gauge, pretty accurate too. Related (though much shorter): europrogovision.blogspot.com/2008/11/earl...

www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba... I cannot speak as to the accuracy of the piece yet I found it a fascinating exercise @adamroberts.bsky.social @drlauravarnam.bsky.social

No cheating, your last saved picture of a celebrity is your therapist.

PUB DOORWAY APPRECIATION 🚪 The appeal is obvious. The promise of what’s inside, the welcoming refuge, the light in the dark etc. I seem to have a big of a thing for them so here are 10 favourites 🤷‍♂️. All 📸 mine 1. The Albion, Conwy. If Wales has a better art deco pub than this, I’d be surprised… 🧵

Love that conceivably, with how long they live, this could be a story about an individual tortoise who was elsewhere for 200 years

I like how blueberry or bubblegum or apple are considered weird soda flavors, but the normal main ones include various roots

Huh en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckold...

COMMUNITY MENACE

I wrote about what it's like in the week your (my) book is published... ferguscraig.substack.com/p/publicatio...

First perfume ad I've seen that perfectly captures the feeling of 10-6 days before your period

Email blackmail scam where they say they have recordings of your Duolingo speaking lessons and will make them public

The cat had turned audio description on on the TV, but not everything has AD, so I had no idea until an otherworldly voice started describing the Pepto-bismol diarrhoea advert just now

Fair enough, you shouldn't take a leek on the tram

Update! It should NOT be edited as THEY WERE THE ORIGINAL TV DALZIEL AND PASCOE. The pics are from a proper, serious programme in which they starred, which came out before the famous version?!

Quote posting with the pics they used in case the article gets edited

Look at the picture they've used for the original Dalziel and Pascoe. www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/lifestyle...

swordfighting tactics, germany, 16th century

sorry I’m late I was zoomed in on maps following a long river from source to mouth

Most London experience I had was I fell over on the tube due to an unexpected lurch. Never made it to the floor as a load of hands appeared to catch me and right me yet no one looked up from their books or said a word.

Man Not Sure He’s Dynamic Enough To Work At Local Marketing Firm https://theonion.com/man-not-sure-he-s-dynamic-enough-to-work-at-local-marke-1819574658/

The sacred video

"It's Pancake Day, yes it's Pancake Day it is P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P Pancake Day!" #PancakeDay

Every morning, I watch a beautiful naked woman across the street with my telescope. One day, I'll get that telescope back.

you take the blue pill, and you'll become drowsy, then wake up in your bed. in addition to relieving your headache, fever, and cough. you take the red pill, you experience relief for those same symptoms. but you won't get sleepy

Oh my god this is great. Brilliant to be reminded that we're probably picturing the past wrong. Especially liked the woman with the lemonade dispenser on her back, and little glasses over her shoulders

People forget the 1999 tyranny of British Racing Green

The best dressed men in Dallas - 1976 📷 Bob Jackson

"O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us!" Rip Robby Burns you would have loved seeing a WhatsApp screenshot from your friend which accidentally reveals you're saved on their phone as "Rob -Alex's Friend"

Just had 13 hours sleep and feel good but in a weird way, like when you've just got back from a holiday, arrived back at work and they're all the same, but that week in Brittany changed you

Jack Benny was born on this day in 1894. He would be 39 today.

Ah bravo Figaro, bravo bravissimo, hope you're very pleased with yourself. Figaro

On this most romantic of days I like to remember the nine year old neighbour who drew chalk hearts all over the street one morning, but she made the two curves at the top a bit too bulbous and the rest a bit (lot) too long and thin, and rounded at the end instead of pointy. 12 foot cocks and balls.

In all this talk of best Heathcliff and best Cathy on screen, everyone seems to have forgotten Terry Jones and Carol Cleveland. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIME...