Curator of Hertfordshire’s largest Calpol syringe and chain pizzeria free crayons museum. Puts the dencity into Welwyn garden city.
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In Bolton, Lancashire, England, while playing hide-and-seek with friends, Henry Thomas slips into a backyard off Euston Street and finds three figures dressed in odd suits made of silvery gray rubber tubes looking into a window in the back of a house.
A tube extends from the helmets into a tank on each figure’s back.
They turn to look at him and he sees their heads are pale and “shaped like lightbulbs” and they have slits for mouths.
Thomas runs away as all three of the entities move toward him.
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I know nobody cares about the written word any more, but sometimes @BBCSport now seems to go out if its way to produce the most hideous prose imaginable.
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I guarantee you are not prepared for where this goes
This one's spectacular. In the 1960s, London's Mews were still being used to keep horses. This clip spoils us with a lovely glimpse of the people, pubs, and lifestyle among the cobbled backstreets that have since become expensive housing. They certainly had more personality then than nowadays. @Britains___Pubs
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This is great, but my favourite Wikipedia page is a PhD in its own right. Someone has charted the movements of Roman emperor from 337-363: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itiner…
unbelievably good wikipedia entry if you're looking to kill five minutes or so en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unparl…
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It's Halloween season again and as a mathematician I'm obliged to post this. I don't make the rules
If that was the first photo of him then is this also the first film of him? Shortly after showing him the first photo of him did they show him the first film of him, seeing the first photo of him? What a postmodern day that must have been.
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And surely one doesn’t need to be “educated the expensive way” to notice the difference between Claret and Beaujolais? They’re very different wines.
Main thing I now want out of this is a definitive ruling on whether @wmarybeard is Professor Emerita or Professor Emeritus. I remember Pat Easterling was Regius Professor (not Regia) but have times changed since then?
Beard is Professor Emerita at Cambridge, so the parameters of the discipline at that institution seem most relevant. Is there an institutional definition which you would prefer?
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Mike West retweeted
A bloke who drank in my pub told me he had a “frictionless tunnel” that went direct to Fatboy Slim’s house and he visited him in the night
I just opened my For You feed and at the top was a massive picture of Frank Ramsey which immediately disappeared and now I can’t find it anywhere. But thanks whoever’s that was.
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This one: nitter.gq/nadienadianadie/status…
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