Quote of the day, #39
I made the mistake* of reading George Orwell‘s A Clergyman’s Daughter this week (having come across an online pdf version at Bookyards). So, just ten days after her arrest for begging, Dorothy set out...
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Quote of the day, #40
…except that I can’t remember the exact quote and google’s no help. It’s something along the lines of “You can choose your friends but you’re stuck with family”. Anyone know it? Anyway, If I had to...
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Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if he or she were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do so with no thought of any...
View ArticleQuote of the day, #41
From the much missed Open Brackets (especially for e): Any editor or translator will tell you that the sensation of dread that descends when faced (once again) with having to proof someone else’s work,...
View ArticleQuote of the day, #43
The villas and the chapels where I learned with little labour The way to love my fellow-man And hate my next-door neighbour. – G.K. Chesterton, Collected Poems, 1927
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I went outside and… Here in blighty the roof has come off the lean-to and I risked life and limb to put some washing out, only to get my hair caught in a shirt button. The shirt was flapping wildly in...
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Eldest niece via MSN during a dicussion on dumping the boyfriend of two weeks (he’s already turned from charming to possessive), wants to change the way she speaks and dresses… oh count the alarm...
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From the IMDB review of The Hunted: They also answer that age-old question “who’d win a fight between a middle-aged ex-athlete with a few months of kendo training and a ninja who’s just lost an arm and...
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In a non-football household, Angela Giles Klocke’s 10 year old daughter sums it up.
View ArticleQuote of the day, #48
Yes, another one! From the wonderful Overhead in the Office’s most popular page: Right Next to the ‘Irony’ Button Customer, trying to use his debit card: I gotta push “English”? “Spanish” shouldn’t be...
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