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all-for-naught, n. Indian test innings

Classic line concerning asparagus

Impromptu, from Geoff Dyer (reading from his Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi), at Shoreditch House.

[All good, but if pressed for time start from about the three-minute mark.]

Politics, decontructed

Nice bit by Anne Treneman in her Times Parliamentary Sketch:

The public disorder debate disorder wasn't a riot so much as a defy-it (for Labour) and a deny-it (for Tories). The Lib-Dems just sat there, wringing their hands and worrying about how to analyse the phenomenon that is social media.

Economics (of) humour

Price: £2.25

:)

I was on at least my fourth Sony Ericsson phone before I noticed that the default text settings start again in lower-case after a colon.

Can I assume that American handsets do differently?

It's National Book Week

... and - as far as Facebook is concerned, anyway - the rules of the game are as follows:

1) Pick up the book closest to you.
2) Turn to page 56.
3) Copy the fifth sentence as your status (without mentioning the book [which raises some context-based questions about the whole point of NBW, surely?] and also appending the above rules).

A dilemma. Page 56 of the book I am currently reading (The Summer Without Men, by Siri Hustvedt) begins with 'Boris wrote back:' followed by a lengthy - and indented - quotation.

Under normal circumstances, of course, I would not consider a colon an impediment to the accurate enumeration of whole sentences. But here, somehow, it seems to upset the applecart.

Worse still, if I count the colon-ised pre-sentence, the fifth (full) sentence on that page comes out as 'There was no love to my love' - and I ain't having that.

If I don't, it is, simply, 'Boris.'

Solutions sought.

Mate's gf on Geoff Boycott

Who is this fucking moron Yorkshire twat?!

InDefinition - 27

queens' Singlish, n. lingua franca of Colombo chat-shows

Curiouser

The magic of authority, money, penises.

- Siri Hustvedt, The Summer Without Men

(Still, one-and-a-half out of three ain't bad.)

Snodland

Anyone know why?

Not porn (alas)

Earn Fist Million Quickly
futuremillionaire.ijts.org
How nice if some one can earn the first million before the age of 22 starting from the beginning. Read many stories about such youth.

How nice indeed. Ijts.

[With thanks to Googleads.]

C'est ma vie

This morning I got myself out of a French accent error... with another French accent error. (It was a grave one.)

Nobel-winner can't punctuate for shit

It came from nowhere like the river, and like the river it would not be denied.

- William Golding, The Inheritors

Change ‘Holloway Road’ of North London to ‘Chuck Norris Road’

And other public petitions rightly rejected by 10 Downing St.

Also seen, last afternoon

AMBULANCE - patient transport service

Well... yes.