Inky Fool

Being the weblog of Mark Forsyth

Sunday, 11 April 2010

Comprachico

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According to the Daily Mail (which is always utterly reliable on such matters), immigrant gangs have been mutilating children before send...
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Friday, 9 April 2010

Clipping

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A taxi meter cab riolet sped over the tar Mac adam towards the zoo logical gardens where it swerved to avoid a p e ram bulator and hit a m...
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Thursday, 8 April 2010

The Lullaby Meter

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My favourite poetic meter is the acephalous iambic tetrameter. If that opening sentence doesn't have you weeing in your intellectual na...
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Wednesday, 7 April 2010

Haywire Straw Polls And The Grass Roots

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I find few things more embarrassing than making an unintentional pun. Yesterday, a journalist told me that she had been watching the wires ...
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Tuesday, 6 April 2010

Dissolving Parliament

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Parliament has been dissolved. Its dissolution was announced this morning. This is probably a good thing as it was dissolute and the countr...
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Monday, 5 April 2010

The Acronyms and Initialisms Database System

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What the world needs is a new quango (quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisation) to deal with acronyms and initialisms. The other day ...
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Sunday, 4 April 2010

Jesus, Bulgarian Revolutionaries and the Life and Death Nature of Commas

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Commas can destroy or save cities and raise (or lower) the dead. According to Luke's Gospel, the following bit of banter occurred among...
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