A great site for the language/grammar nerds and fans of unusual accents: [link] (Digital Collection of English accents compiled by the British Library)
'Why We Fight'
Natter 40: The Nice One
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Crime makes you stupid: [link]
Arizona authorities this week charged suspected members of a criminal ring thought responsible for 10 per cent of all fake money in the state after some members sent a printer, jammed with counterfeit bills, out for repair.
Strega, will you write me a note for work? I just don't wanna go.
You're already at a computer. You're upright and everything! The rest is easy. I couldn't get out of bed for two hours after I woke up. I finally convinced myself to come in by deciding that I could leave early on Friday. So you can do that, too.
As Arthur Dent once said: "It must be a Thursday. I never could get the hang of thursdays."
This is why I take Fridays off whenever I can and turn my Thursdays into Fridays. Easy peasy.
This book is people:
As long as I don't actually think about it, there's a nice dotty sort of 19th-century leave-your-body-to-science-ness about that. And I know exactly what to do the next time I'm presented with the hide of a dear friend who's been flayed by the vicious heathen savages . (Whitefonted for the squeamish. As if you couldn't have guessed.)
This book is people:
Pillow Book, anyone?
Pillow Book, anyone?
Except that it lacks naked Ewan.
And I know exactly what to do the next time
Just make sure it isn't a copy of The Silence of the Lambs , amych.
Except that it lacks naked Ewan.
So many things do, sadly.