David Stainer

Lovely Wittgenstein story of just nine words — lower line here

A tweet by Rich 'Sir FarFrom' Tipple (@farfromallover): Roses are red, Florists deliver, and then two people (one of whom appears to be William Hartnell in an early Dalek story) looking at a poster which says “IT IS FORBIDDEN TO DUMP BODIES INTO THE RIVER”

Can’t let Valentine’s Day pass without a bit of poetry, of course. Here’s one by @rtipple.bsky.social from the old place

Oh man, though, to lose London’s best McDonald’s (in service terms) would be a barbarity.

I don’t want to laugh at a small business but also VERY funny

A photo that appears to have a "gettyimages" watermark but the watermark is actually painted directly on the bridge.

This watermark graffiti by street artist Mathieu Tremblin is, like, the best thing ever.

Magnificent song!

If it was a single album, I think it would probably be regarded as an all timer. As it is it’s very good but quite mixed and sprawling.

Yup, I agree with that. I certainly didn't have it nailed on, and I'm allegedly one of the better quizzers in the country. Feels like all S-Gs in my lifetime (born 1978) would have been much easier than naming Guterres.

Yes if it’s still Guterres. No otherwise.

Oh this is good. This is very good.

Good decision!

Magnificent band. So good to see someone else who was keen, amid the derision.

In Agadoo did Kubla Khan
Push pineapples, shake the tree

If MC&TIS had been a single album and kept the best bits I suspect it’d have been an all timer.

ah fair, I can see a few references plus this photo in Seabrook’s volume now I check, which must be where Google AI is pulling it from.

Yes. Also, I wonder if the “link” to this garage is a bit AI-invented? I can see two websites using the photo in relation to the murders but neither explains precisely why. It is mentioned in Google’s AI write up of the garage name but feels a bit thin to me.

They were just so magnificent. I wish a fan would publish all the missing ones in the same format. I’d pay a lot for them.

I’m not even sure it needs explaining, perhaps beyond “France invaded the Channel Island of Jersey”, really.

I miss his Olympics books more than any other defunct series of books. (Schott’s Almanac is second.)

I have acquired all three volumes of this over the years plus a lot of other Wallechinsky works. Great books.

King of England on a checkerboard pattern tile floor

Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here

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Years ago I was once doing a quiz using buzzers, like University Challenger. And a player buzzed in very early on a geographical sounding clue to say “Wester Ross”. I was genuinely very impressed at his Scottish geographical knowledge for about 24 hours before looking up the clue and realising.

Sultans of Ping FC’s debut album is called Casual Sex in the Cineplex.

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CUBAN BOYS C VS I

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Didn’t change my life but I thoroughly enjoyed it.

An academic disliked an Oxford Very Short Introduction (145 pages) in his field so much that he wrote a 200 page book review attacking it. www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...

Sport FACT: Tennis star Coco Gauff’s full name is Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysilio Coco Gauff.

Ah, I have that one on my wishlist (next one up by date added in fact) and that has put me off a bit.