43

How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.

If you see this, post a record cover with a motor vehicle on it.

My girlfriend just said I was rubbish at describing her. She's got a cheek.

Just saw that Pizza Hut in the UK could be folding. I think that officially makes it Calzone Hut. Eyethangewe. I’m here all week. Try the veal.

CHOTINER: So you're attending a No Kings protest today. ME: That's right. CHOTINER: But according to Steam, you've played over 450 hours of Crusader Kings 3. ME: Okay, well- Now hold on. That's sort of unfair. CHOTINER: Oh? ME: Sometimes I play as a duke or a count. CHOTINER: I see.

Born this day, Lee Harvey Oswald 🎂 @barneyfarmer.bsky.social

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

How is it that I've never seen this image before?

Here you are: william-golding.co.uk/william-gold...

If you have two followers, you are ahead of half of all Bluesky accounts. If you have 400 followers, you are in the top 1%. bsky.jazco.dev/stats

Wake up Babe, a new euphemism for students getting drunk just dropped

We've recently learned that no England men's international was born in 1976. But what would an England team only of players born that year look like? www.footballtriviagroup.co.uk/england-1976/

I’ve been waiting for a really long time for Sqwerv to be on Nugs. I can’t believe it’s finally here

Big news everyone: Sqwerv is on Nugs

Trying unsuccessfully to work out the correct conclusion to the syllogism

44

Q: What is Bluesky’s business model? A: Bluesky doesn’t need a business model. It was founded by the billionaire Bluford Skynard. He filled this site with slightly problematic posts as a riddle. Whoever replies to each one with a minor quibble will solve the puzzle and inherit his fortune

Mathematicians get their kicks on 8.1240384

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci! ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

Catastrophic subtitling on the 1941 movie "Love on the Dole". (It should read "She's a strange lass, is our Sal"...)

Love old papers. Fancy having such a list today!

I said I fancied doing an evening class, so my wife booked me on an "Eat Like A Snake” course. That'll teach me to open my big mouth.

There’s a small estate in Colchester commemorating the leaders of the WW2 Allies - Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin. The council has asked the residents of Stalin Road several times if they want to have it renamed, but the answer has always come back ‘No’.

Very important work here from my learned friend @simonjtreanor.bsky.social .

They finally made the milk from that hotel

Graph of British Rivers

Which reminds me - Mark Burgess from The Chameleons is adamant that The Wedding Present's 'Brassneck' is about a girl both he and David Gedge knew at school called Tracy Bassnett.

It was Frank Sidebottom who famously asdked Fish if Kayleigh was about a girl called Kay Leigh. "You're the first person who's guessed that," replied Fish.

God bless the person who donated a fiver, because somehow it makes this even funnier than if he has raised nothing. www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/laurenc...

It IS uncanny, though.

so they're mycoblogging

I don't remember the last time I was this emotionally invested

Forgot I was on a phone call about council tax Them: What band are you in Me: Erm, The Charlatans Them: Your council tax band? 😬

"I upped the Tariff" "And I stood there as his deputy."

He's playing Darth Vader's nephew, Taksi.

incredible anecdote in one of Phil Jackson’s memoirs: Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls accidentally drank *Gaterlode*, a high-carb drink, in an NBA Finals game “Each of the players, it was estimated, had ingested the equivalent of about twenty baked potatoes.” Bulls lost the game

38

Ok, I’ve seen enough. This is the best thing I’ll ever watch on the internet. (Also, I’ve clearly failed as a father. Could have put my time to so much better use…) Double-decker electric “garden bus” from 1960s England.

The Irish have started calling Conor McGregor, ‘Andrew Tayto’.

Although his date of birth is disputed, this is a great daguerreotype of possibly the earliest born person to be photographed. This is Caesar, born enslaved in New York in 1737 in the reign of George II. He was the last slave to be freed in the state in 1841 and died in 1852 at 114/5

A Morley’s chicken shop has been infiltrated into the Brockwell Park model village.

Oh those Germans!

Every 20th Century British Character Actor's Wikipedia page:

37

SKEE LO: I wish I was a little bit taller, I wish I was a baller, I wish I had a girl who looked good and I would call her GENIE: You are SO bad at this. I'll give you one more SKEE LO: I wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat GENIE: *cry laughing* I'm out

As it's transfer deadline, a reminder if #wba don't sign a Robson, Kanu or combination before 2039, then the 2030s will be the first decade since the 1940s #wba haven't had a robson/kanu on their books. Sir Bobby: 50s, 60s Bryan: 70s, 80s Gary: 80s, 90s K: 2000s HRK: 2010s, 20s

I'm a Riggs I'm a Glover I'm a Getz I'm a Murtaugh I'm Joe Pesci I'm Jet Li I'm Lethal Weapon 3