David Stainer

Mathematicians get their kicks on 8.1240384

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Ah, d’oh.

Ha, gave up on McEwan a couple of novels back, having been a completist, but that looks oddly tempting. Does the book really omit its own title? Bold.

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.

This one for me too.

Still from the 1941 film "Love on the Dole", with the unfortunate subtitle "She's a strange lassie's arsehole".

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 think this is truer about Scrabble. As soon as either of you care about learning words, “let’s check that in OSW”, etc. it’s game over.

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.

No but I’m not sure I’ve seen people on this aspect before. But it’s really struck me recently how unusual for my social group to span from 20 somethings to 60 somethings.

Agree so profoundly with this.

Thank you. And, yes, I agree about ordinary usage.

I would think you’re probably right that they have the legal grounds for this but to me the case illustrates the definition is overly expansive. I would prefer criminal damage of this kind to be treated as such without regard to the motivation, not least as it does not then impact on third parties.

The bomb would bring into play the various elements around endangering people in a way paint in an engine doesn’t. Do you know how “serious” is assessed in this context? The bomb feels a lot more serious than paint to me but I don’t know how the law defines seriousness.

I think Judgement at Tokyo ticks the big theme box. Seriously good.

I must admit I doubted myself because although, in classic Grandad-style I remembered her as attractive, I - erm - didn’t remember her as *that* attractive.

Is it Virginia Bottomley?

Puts me in mind of this excellent Wikipedia page:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_neve...

A street sign reading ‘Stalin Road’ with the start of a row of houses in the background.

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’.

Magnificent.

This would certainly have been my thought (aged 47).

What family name links the winner of the 1860 Open and the winner of the 2018 Women’s Open? These golfers are of very different nationalities.

Sorry, you acknowledged this in your post. But it can be worth digging deeper. Subsidiary titles, family properties, other tracts of land owned by them etc.

Noble landowners is always a good bet here. Not sure this particular case but certainly many cases in London.

Dorothea Lambert Chambers!

Fascinating the range of approaches to this. Some setters love to plough their interest furrows with every quiz they write. I try to shy away from it: always find it hard to judge difficulty on topics I know deeply and I don’t want people benefiting by revising all my favourite topics!

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

K-Pop and OK Boomer

a ½ gallon of neutral milk

They finally made the milk from that hotel