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The ancient historian reincarnated as a penguin. An apt and erudite apterydite.
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I have a joke about Callimachus but it … under the … [wept] until … nobody laughed [1] [1] or alternatively, only the dog laughed (Murray’s conjecture)

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PSA: when your phone rings at 30,000 feet, the correct response is to reject the call and switch your phone to flight mode asap. It is not to say in your plummy important sounding voice “Hello! Yes, I’m on the plane. Yes, marvellous isn’t it….” Etc. Grrr

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But decor featuring Roman emperors as football stickers, among the great Italian players? That I can get behind.

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A somewhat disturbing hotel room…

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This is weird at Heathrow T5 this morning. Most flights go to specific cities, but BA602 just goes to “Turkey”. Is “Istanbul” too hard to spell? Do they just pick a random city in Turkey at departure time?

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

“Hi, can I have the Turndown Service please?” “No, sorry, I’m afraid you can’t” “That was great, I enjoyed it! Thank you so much”

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Was offered this at hotel buffet breakfast.. Insert your own joke.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Following my previous post on weird things people take through airport security, here’s the guy in front of me in today’s queue - he had two bags of ready meals… Sadly we ended up in different lanes so I don’t know if he got them through.

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The cool thing about visiting the USA is you see those cybertrucks around the place.

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I think I should start a daily health challenge. However, I’m on a business trip in Houston. So my challenge today is to try eat less than 8,000 calories.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

At Heathrow security this morning, my bag got selected for drug swabbing. But I was stuck in the queue behind an Australian couple who had decided to take a full size bottle of wine and a corkscrew in their hand luggage… I don’t even know where to start.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Sometimes when people are talking a foreign language, and you don’t understand a word, a borrowing from English just jumps out at you. I’m on a train. A couple sitting opposite are chatting in Spanish. I don’t understand a word. But in the middle of it, I’m sure she just said “regular sperm”.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

"Without Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie, all born within the same few months of the year 1942 and a radius of 380 miles, the face of western civilisation would most likely look quite different"

submitted 19 days ago • 7 comments

"I've got a brand new content harvester"

submitted 21 days ago • 71 comments

My phone rang. When I answered a clunky voice said “Hello my name is John, I’m the adviser in your postcode area. How are you today?” I answered “You’re an automated bot” He continued “Ok so can I confirm your postcode?” Me: You’re an automated bot It: And how do you spell your surname? (1/x)

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

I know he's younger than the previous pontiff, but even so, this is pretty impressive stuff given the limited time he'll have had in nets recently.

submitted 28 days ago • 76 comments

You can tickle the penguins And get them to laugh You can just sing a song To amuse the giraffes Just a little soft-shoe Will delight the woodchucks But try as you might You can’t

submitted 33 days ago • 18 comments

Seems a bit harsh. We should stick to using tarmac for the potholes and putting normal waste in the clean bins.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

As a former resident of Bearwood, I have to say that the suburb itself is appropriately named. Though possibly the nearby suburb of Sarehole would need less alteration to the signage.

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