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This post has already gone up twice; but, as it's the one on which I worked hardest, and as this blog is always gaining and losing adh... -
Just a brief post as I'm running round the country giving talks (Booka Books in Oswestry tonight). I met a German-speaking lady in Edin...
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Because of all the attention this post is getting, I ought to point out that I was not intending to disclose some outrageous Orwellian con...
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I've been staying in the flat of an American friend and found amongst his books an American-English dictionary . It is a slim volume, a... -
A poop-noddy is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as: Sexual intercourse (rare) I don't know about you, dear reader, but I... -
Here is the updated list of the fifty most quoted lines of poetry on the internet, including all the readers' suggestions. We started ... -
If I wish to do an impression of a Chinese chap, I will not allow myself to be hampered by the fact that I don't speak a word of Mandar... -
Pluto was the god of the underworld. He was also the god of wealth. That is why we have plutocracy (government by the wealthy), plutocrats ... -
Back when I was writing The Horologicon , there was one word that I desperately wanted to include. But I couldn't because I didn't ...
Until that time be apart we will
ReplyDeleteWhile lilies bloom on Downshire Hill
Our love will live on pilau rice
DeleteFetched from the Curry Paradise.
Till you, my goose, retrieve your gander,
And then we'll live on lamb pasanda.
^ brilliant!
DeleteOne of my favourite restaurants.
DeleteTen-shilling bouquet for Aunt Sally
ReplyDelete"No Loitering" in Pope's Head Alley
Persis Grill,
ReplyDeleteMy son craved shish kebab
But closed was Persis Grill
I oven baked for him short rib
And hope he was as happy as a fool
You should have baked a gooseberry fool
DeleteAnd sent your wayward son to school.
My son will be a university freshmen with excitement,
DeleteWho will start the first semester online in my basement