Mike Rampton

If you missed the chance to see DOGE's Justin Fox stonewall on the definition of DEI during a deposition, here you go:

Doctor: [handing over newborn] what will you call him?

Mr. and Mrs. Galilei: well, we really fuckin love our last name so

‘It’s like a giant book club’: how schools are getting children excited about reading again In the National Year of Reading, teachers say a culture of enthusiasm, from dress-up days, story time and book clubs, can reverse a national decline

‘It’s like a giant book club’: how schools are getting children excited about reading again

No book is going to turn kids into someone else. But books will regularly show kids other people like them and show those kids they're not alone. And they'll show kids other types of people who also exist. There is a large proportion of the population who are terrified of this.

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Professors will recognize this kid as the student who didn't do the reading but still has very strong opinions about how it's all "bullshit," except this time he's not the callow student who's going to fail your course, he's the reviewer who's going to cancel your grant.

This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast.

They’ll play this in museums in future.

(🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)

Thank you.

I'm reading the CBeebies Bedtime Story later, and want to make sure I look attractive, but am also dressed in a way that shows my love of loud alternative music.
— Handsome and Metal?
No, the story I am reading is The Three Bears

The open road and a bucket of human waste And many great jokes, including one about a Roman nurse that I wrote when very tired

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Home | Interesting Skull Jokes and freelancing insights (mainly jokes) from author and journalist Mike Rampton

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During the peak years of EastEnders it regularly drew audiences of over 25 million. This wasn't sustainable, and a crash was inevitable: this has become known as the dot.cotton boom.

you don't hear much about wet heaving

I’ve listened to this now. It’s good! I’m quite funny! Enormous thanks again to Richard for such a brilliant opportunity.

“Reading Is Fun!”

The great Maurice Sendak’s poster for 1979’s International Year Of The Child.

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Mike Rampton is a good chap. Even when he writes about poo, which is really not the sort of thing I ususally rebleet about.

As a deeply obscure figure I am incredibly grateful to Rich for having me on his podcast. For unrelated reasons I was in a horrible mood so possibly come across as a bit of a miserable, money-obsessed dullard. Which is a shame as I am usually incredible, funny, heroic, good-looking and charming.

I did two World Book Day talks in a lovely school in London today. I have a great gag with a bucket which gets a five-second laugh but involves carrying a bucket around all day. It's the least glamorous thing in the world. Kids were wonderful, what a great job to have, I am so, so tired.

An expat in Dubai has a startling revelation: the Stephen Collins cartoon Reality check …

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Some people just don’t know how to take a condiment.

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Authors, illustrators and poets who visit schools in the UK & Ireland Discover children’s authors, poets and illustrators who offer school visits across the UK and Ireland, plus useful planning advice.

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I wrote the cover story for this month's The Week Junior Science+Nature, on shelves now. It's such, such a cool magazine: positive, fun, beautiful and absolutely fascinating. Lovely stuff!

"I recently watched a film made by Aardman Animations and considered how making myself throw up was sometimes a way of easing my grief."
"Solace in vomit?"
"No, it was Chicken Run."

You wake up in the morning
With gray clouds overhead
And you struggle for the will
To rise up out of bed
The world outside is frightening
A sad and dismal place
You pray for inspiration
A moment of pure grace
Maybe there’s something out there
To take away these blues
Perhaps

“There’s a word for what beavers do with their teeth. It’s neither bite or chew.”
“Gnaw?”
“Okay, fine. There’s a word for what beavers do with their teeth. It’s neither bite NOR chew. Happy?”

Willie Nelson is one of the most painful wrestling holds.

When a British person is surprised to see a memorial hall

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