From 1983 to 1987, there was a band of very nice if somewhat tempermental lads from Manchester known as The…
It's a clever turn of phrase, really. I first saw it in use here. The chemist-turned-Holocaust-memoir-writer Primo Levi has a…
And in honour of your birthday, I present you with this lovely photo of when I last came down to…
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When my alarm clock goes off each morning, I look at it like it's some tool of the inquisition whose…
My ex used to say that I had this way of saying the word pants that sounded really dirty. Pants…
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. -- Chief Engineer Montgomery “Scotty” Scott from Star…