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One of the three stories making up today's Ripley's Believe It Or Not! comic strip as provided by gocomics. It refers to a Flat Earth Cruise that was being organised for 2020.

Today's Ripley's Believe It Or Not! I don't know if this is a re-run, but it's looking forward to an event that was due to take place in 2020. A quick Google search shows this cruise never happened, cancelled due to COVID or possibly common sense...

Four 1980s Groo comics

The Story Of Yorkshire Pop Music by Craig Ferguson and The Essential Guide To New Orleans three CD set

Two LP records: Get Out & Walk by The Farmer's Boys and Latin Dance Party volume 3

Leith charity shop haul from last week, £16 total spend

A drawing by me of the font and a detail of the stained glass window behind it at Whitekirk Church in East Lothian. The font and the window both feature the descending dove motif.

I took part in the church recording project at Whitekirk Church last Friday. When we were encouraged to take ten minutes to contemplate and draw a feature of the church I chose the font and the window behind it which both feature the descending dove motif.

The cover of Bastard Bunny comic #1 from 1991

Great to see this guy getting all those awards last night #Grammys #humour

A sticker on a lamppost in Edinburgh, December 2019. It says "Consider the possibility that you're wrong about something"

Nice work if you can get it

An anthropomorphic green pepper says "I'm not a tomato person", inspired by a YouTube restaurant reviewer saying the same line

My new career as a gag cartoonist...

Until the last couple of weeks, I rarely heard the term Psychodrama, now thanks to British politics it’s a term I hear every day

Two b/w images of Indian Air Force helicopters – top image shows two , bottom image shows one close up. They have been hung with richly decorated textiles, complete with four hollow ‘legs’, two massive ‘ears’, a pair of ‘tusks’, and a massive ‘trunk’

In anniversary news which I can’t quite verify, it may be 39 years (possibly more) since the Indian Air Force dressed their helicopters up as elephants for Republic Day

Best Guardian Thursday quiz score for ages. Have I got too much time on my hands? ;-)

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Nigel Farage apologises for 17 breaches of MPs’ code of conduct Reform UK leader, who failed to declare £380,000 on time, says he is computer-illiterate ‘oddball’

This is like the Harry Redknapp defence, "I write like a two year old. I can't work a computer, I don't know what an email is, I have never sent a fax"

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imagine being the guy who accidentally said "weasel" at a weird time 2400 years ago

A 10p masterpiece! The golden age of crisp packet design, from Chipsticks to Frazzles to Hedgehogs Aliens drawn by a 2000AD artist, graphics echoing the Dark Side of the Moon cover, Dennis the Menace fronting bacon and baked bean flavour … we pop open a new 140-page celebration of the weirdest, wil...

Back in 1978 I was mad for Football Crazy. Four and a half pence a packet if I remember correctly and some sort of free sticker incentive which I had loads of

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Blaming Norway for not getting a Nobel prize is like invading Ireland for not being in the Guinness book of records.

A hard boiled Lidl extra large egg

These Lidl extra large eggs are so big you can't tell which is the big end and which is the little end

For me #MichaelCarrick will always be the young player who inspired this impressive Harry Redknapp swear, as reported in the Guardian back in May 2001

A giant yellow sign on the side of the road announces “YOU ARE ENTERING A FRUIT FLY CONTROLLED AREA” and below that in smaller letters “Make sure you know the rules.”

I don’t think we should have ceded control quite so quickly and without so much as a fight.

Left wallet + credit cards on London bus this morning, and didn’t even know it was missing. The bus driver has just dropped it off at my house! I thought this sort of thing only happened in the movies. Thank you bus driver Dorota... @tflbot.bsky.social

That is an awesome shirt

Top 25 of 1985 Playlist - Top 25 of 1985 - 25 items

My top 25 of the year -- the year 1985 that is...

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My mum had a Viewmaster reel of the wedding of Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier

Idea for a tv show where Clare Skinner plays a very well informed detective #TheArchers

All is quiet

#SameStupidJokeEveryYear

A calendar puzzle solved for January 1st

#StartingAsIMeanToGoOn

Happy New Year everybody

A bottle of wine, a Picpoul de Pinet. It’s called ‘Baron de Badassière’.

“Pray tell, the Baron, what sort of gentleman is he?”

“Well…”

And the 2025 Braddies go to … Peter Bradshaw’s film picks of the year Now the Guardian’s Top 50 countdowns, as voted for by the whole film team, have announced their No 1s, here are our chief critic’s personal choices – in no particular order

I've seen precisely two of these. Most disappointed that the Ballad of Wallis Island didn't get a Braddie

George Lucas' best film. All downhill from there...

The Quiet Wit of Rea Irvin: Rediscovering The Smythes by Tammi Morton-Kelly www.tcj.com/the-quiet-wi...

William Hiseland - Wikipedia

I don't know which is more impressive: fighting Spaniards at the of 89 or getting married at the age of 103?

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