Alan Fisher

You can tell a lawyer’s angry when he signs Esq.

Pretty sure that “optartpus eepus” were discussed in book 6 of Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

Big guys with big stone heads.

Quite right; yet one can assume Churchill probably thought anyone south of Vienna and east of Berlin was Asian at heart.

Eh, my SCIF has windows. Granted, only facing inner courtyards in a historic building and we have to have blinds down at all times.

Land lines phones and wind-up watches.

Well, remember; they weren't European, so to Churchill it wasn't any sort of crime to bomb 'em.

Fish heads, fish heads,
Spicy spicy fish heads,
Fish heads, fish heads,
Eat 'em up, yow!

Ada Lovelace, grandmother of modern computing, and her arms.

Arm, Ada.

Pear liqueur, sours, rye?

Get a Mylar one. You can attach small magnets to it until it’s buoyantly neutral.

Yeah, I’ve been out of the FAR/DFARS arena since 2007.

[Looks left, looks right, puts on the pedant hat] DFAR.

Yes, Lord Baden "do as I say, not as a do," Powell, hero of Mafeking, where he allegedly stated that if you sacrifice the locals (but he used a different term) the game is easy. Not a nice guy.

Browning: Quite. I've just been on to Monty. He's very proud and pleased.
Urquhart: Pleased?
Browning: Of course. He thinks Market Garden was 90% successful.
Urquhart: But what do you think?
Browning: Well, as you know, I always felt we tried to go a bridge too far.

"It is not facemaxxing unless you are completely reworking the flesh with knives and bones with stones."

Confidently stating. Autocorrect or typing too fast?

Well, if you made the whole thing out of forearm bones, you could have a Schwartzchild Radius of Radii.

It's just pathetic, and most councils will ignore National, as they usually do when this shit happens. The most damning thing I can say is that Baden-Powell would approve of National's move.

Ah, yes, like the USA PATRIOT ACT, the ATPFRPTTIIOHCR14 simply rolls off the tongue (if you have Bill the Cat's tongue).

This is what you get when a xenomorph infects a Barbie doll.

Chicken nuggets atop a gravy float.

And then the next book starts out by confidential stating, several times, how the Germans conquered Denmark, France, and Sweden at the beginning of World War II.

Liver cake - Wikipedia

Why not both?

Alerting @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social!

OK, military history authors; you can't claim a book is about a particular obscure operation when the execution of the operation itself is less than three pages of your 300 page book. That's just an exercise in padding and wasting your reader's time.

I don't particularly like spiders, but I cannot deny that is a handsome critter.

Any headline that end in a question mark can be answered with “no.”

I'm certainly not going to claim that I'm up on the market rate, and I certainly wouldn't turn my nose up at .08c.

The professional rate is .8c? I thought it was .10c. And that's not criticism, .8c is pretty good these days.