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Comedy producer, writer, passionate defender of nuanced complexity, skilled pancake artisan.
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“Byzantium, wherein our human ends
Are lacquered into golden artifice.
There are no strangers here, only friends
We haven’t met yet. It’ll be so nice.”
WB Yeats, Picnic in Byzantium (Hallmark 1974)
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Wow! Cent pour cent banger bi-langue!
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This is such a wonderful piece of music. I’ve listened to Ian Bostridge’s version a lot but not heard this recording before. Poor Ivor Gurney though. You can really feel the tension in him in this setting. Thank you for sharing.
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Pretty sure 12 is “mice”.
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I guess “boring” - otherwise why would you need the coffee?
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Contains Campari and values. Delicious.
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Let alone the damage it does to soft power. It’s all so pointless and destructive.
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I think she’s just come to the justifiable conclusion that coherence counts for nothing in opposition.
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Isn’t that bears?
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If the smoke smells of hickory it means the new pope is a salmon.
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Early hominids who wandered about looking for a nice spot for lunch were known as ASTROLLAPICNICKERS.
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“I want him to lie stretched out, contented,
Revelling in the heat, his fur all dry and warm,
An Old Age Pensioner, retired, resented
By no one, and happinessses in a beelike swarm
To settle on him…”
From Gavin Ewart’s poem about his elderly cat.
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These days I think the Conservatives see themselves as the party for people who hate their grandchildren.
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If this is you, or someone you know, get in touch with me at [email protected].
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Did he falafel about it?
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Formerly known as a “Hancock up”.
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Tremendous! Congratulations Steve.
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I thought of you when I watched that clip.
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This is incredibly sad news, Jon. So sorry. What a loss.
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Critics will say he really lucked out when those dinosaurs turned up but in this business you make your own luck.
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Booooravo!
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The start of Jaws that lady was just meant to go for a swim but a shark ate her and Spielberg kept it in.
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Not saying you needed to edit this a lot but it might have been better with a little prune.
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I need a Spam filter.
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You should definitely be in the running for a Bathtub. I’ll happily give you a plug.
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Roses are red
Around the door
Of a ruined Welsh cottage,
The shepherd long dead.
RS Thomas
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I saw it a week ago and Eisenberg’s speech about “unexceptional pain” is still echoing in my thoughts. Such a beautifully written film.
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It’s what was originally behind “usted” in Spanish - a contraction of “vuestra merced” - “your mercy”.
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Maybe it’s like saying “your honour”. Turning it into the third person makes it respectful: “your good self”.
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Oh! I just thought about the lift, the ball. He’s shedding his earlier life, becoming light, ascending…
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The scene with the boy in the lift!
“Wie heißt dein… Ball?”
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Typical bot. Can’t sustain iambic pentameter for more than one couplet.
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It’s really amazing isn’t it? It changed how I thought about the play. Tim’s research is in UK court records from the Early Modern period. He’s found remarkable and sometimes hilarious things.
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A legal historian friend wrote this amazing article about Merchant of Venice…
Essentially it was incredibly topical. Everyone in the country was taking each other to court over “bonds”. It was out of control. A million cases a year in a country of 4 million people
www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/...