Ian Potter

Who'd have thought the gift would be a Myrka glove puppet?

Advice everyone needs earlier.

It's December. Pay your freelancers.

That's it. That's the post.

Got me in the feels.

Googles... Oh, of course it's Batt. It's*obviously* Batt!

Adore it, but suddenly had an origin story moment of clarity just now where I imagined Mr Essex smashing a desk with fists, yelling "Give me a Bright Eyes! I want a Bright Eyes!"
"But David, you don't have an Art Garfunkel kind of voice..."
"Just do similar orchestration!"

It is worth every penny.

I left just as the heartbreak was really beginning. I rarely pick my line in the sand wisely but this time I was spot on, I think.

In a pyr of colourful trousers.

I would watch an ill-matched buddy movie with Dickson and Madgwick.

Now I've looked up what Buzzballz are it's a deal less humiliating.

Just delighted spouse by pausing a show during a sad bit to say "This incidental score is ripping off 'An Ending (Ascent)' by Brian Eno and the scene was probably edited with it as a temp track." Reader, I was agreed with!

Stop fancying me, you maniacs!

Someone posted up a column from the Revd. Marcus Morris- editor of The Eagle, Swift, Robin and Girl earlier. How sexist was the UK back then that we had just one comic for young ladies and three for bird species?

The big moment comes when he instinctively uses the chains that confine him to aid others.
For a moment, to end with, Marley was alive.

Just this once, everybody lives!

Dance of the Knights from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet. I associate it with The Master Game but it may just have been this show's signature tune at a different point (possibly with the same animation).

I spent a long time trying to remember this.
Now it's your turn to suffer.
If I could have my time again I think I'd probably include footnotes

Aye*

*Sounds like I.

and

See?**

**Sounds like C.

for extra clarity, but life's too short for regrets.

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You're still there?! 👍

Conversely I had the poster typography sorted in advance for my shamefully neglected Squeers‽, 'Nell..., Trotwood- Children of Earth and Dombey Flesh E@ters.

Anthony Newley's Scrooge poster- grumpy eyes for 'o's.

Poster for Oliver! with a typographical representation of Jonathan Pryce's Fagin that probably went through some meetings. I think he's winking with the 'v'.

The Edwin Drood musical primarily failed because no one knew what questionable cartoony face to make out of the 'o's in Drood.

I think @MatthewJElliott and I considered riffing this but its ratio of planet to prehistoric women meant it was pretty hard to make entertaining. No one needs 15 minutes of "that's an amusingly shaped boulder" zingers.

I see parents checking their profanity counts and I see their results.
You've been domesticated.

Darn tootin' thass an orrery seahorse!

I've let the whole school down.

No. Though I'd be concerned about that growth on your shoulder.

@profanity.accountant I try to limit my effing and jeffing but fear I may have let myself down. How am I doing?

Captain Kirk errr...

Apparently so. I recently read someone saying he'd written to Pan complaining that his mother still lived at the Redbridge address in the book.