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"Messrs Cattermole, Mousehabit, Neapthigh and Trusspot, solicitors and Commissioners for Oaths"

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This musing sparked by a currently ongoing trainwreck in t'other place concerning Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett allegedly being 'cringe'

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seems to me that the reference is part of a distinctive tendency to assume an unchallenged dignity in stuff like chartered accountancy, quantity surveying, calculations of air speed velocity etc & then go on to mock it. it's very much of its time and I don't think I'm articulating it very well, soz

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well yes, point taken, but there's something historically specific about Python's particular take that I was attempting to pin down here, partly as an exploration of how dated it now feels you couldn't say Ethel the Aardvark Goes Quantity Surveying nowadays

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True, but they did expand the concept of poshness-as-straight-man to include all sorts of other tacitly accepted formalities, e.g. the pompous instructional voiceover of Not Being Seen, the existence of chartered accountants

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chivalric formality of a knightly duel vs limbs chopped off awkward social ritual of returning item to shop vs slamming dead parrot on cage bars staid accountants vs bloodthirsty pirates snooty french waiter presenting epicurean delicacies vs throwing up into a bucket

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Was thinking about how much of Python's humour relied upon the formula of 'contrast the formal, precise and mannerly with the immediate and visceral' & realised I'd only gone and used that exact same stale old formula for the leopard tweet. luckily nobody noticed

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All Change as Folkestone is first to vote in New Mayor - The Looker

She joined the Labour Party and was elected as Mayor of Folkestone. www.thelooker.co.uk/all-change-a...

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In case people don't fancy going to Twitter:

Michelle4Labour comments on the Leopards Eating Faces tweet, saying she never saw it at the time & that 'at least sometimes the experience turns people into lions who then eat the leopards'. Cavalorn says the meme may have been partly inspired by her Question Time appearance but it's become its own thing now. Michelle replies that she's happy to wear the meme with pride, whether it be about her or not.

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I think there were two productions we saw, one modern dress at the Young Vic which I remember very vividly because Bullet Baxter from Grange Hill was Polonius, and another that was a lot more big-budget RSC

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Wuthering Heights. She was quite idiosyncratic, e.g. pronouncing Edgar 'Ed-GAH' and we all used to imitate it staight-facedly & try to make each other crack up

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Definitely S&L. I remember the phrase 'dunna thee worrit' associated with it. I think. I hope... And now I'm remembering Fenace Collins reading it aloud, and pondering that I have never once heard of another person being named Fenace

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/08/2026

Oh I should definitely follow you down it and see how differently it reads at our time of life. I remember you comparing Hemmingway's sparse style to Green Eggs and Ham back in 1985!

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Discworld QOTD, from The Shepherd's Crown "FOR I CAN SEE THE BALANCE AND YOU HAVE LEFT THE WORLD MUCH BETTER THAN YOU FOUND IT, AND IF YOU ASK ME, said Death, NOBODY COULD DO ANY BETTER THAN THAT…"

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ValentinaPaz @valentinapaz.com · 15/05/2026

She just wants to sit at her knee and listen to her talk. close-up: www.valentinapaz.com/blog/enraptu... #Art #Fanart #Warframe #warframefanart

Eleanor Nightingale sitting on the floor, resting her arms on Natah's lap, looking up at her face. Natah is looking down and smiling at Eleanor.

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ValentinaPaz @valentinapaz.com · 25/05/2026

something something what if the serum acted slower etc Close-up + sketch: www.valentinapaz.com/blog/eleanor/ #Art #Fanart #Warframe #WarframeFanart

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Adrian Bott @cavalorn.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The weather was the perfect thing to complain about because a) it affected everyone equally, with nobody being exempt from it, and b) it was nobody's fault, so nobody could take umbrage.

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Robert Brookes 🌿 @sphynxian.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Bungie folks impacted by the layoffs: please let me know if you see anything on our careers page that is a fit for you. I will gladly help with application advice and recommendations: www.cdprojektred.com/en/jobs

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CD PROJEKT RED | Award-Winning Creator of Story-Driven RPGs

As the team behind The Witcher 4, Cyberpunk 2077, and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, we create revolutionary RPGs with memorable stories that inspire gamers.

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ariella @agbouskila.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Well, I've been affected by the Bungie layoffs, and I guess I'm now looking for work. I'm a senior narrative designer on Destiny 2. I'm going to thread a little list of stuff I've done on the game; normally I go out of my way to avoid attention, but today I'd appreciate reposts.

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Adrian Bott @cavalorn.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Full context for those that wants

An extended quotation from Imagine Magazine #2 confirming that at Games Fair in 1983 Gary Gygax was reported as saying 'A good referee only rolls the dice for the sound they make.'

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Adrian Bott @cavalorn.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Given the apparent controversy of @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social suggesting that scenes can be resolved without the use of dice, here's an interesting quote from Gary Gygax in 1983, as reported in Imagine Magazine #2:

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 15/06/2026

One of the most interesting interpretations of 1984, and somewhat supported by comments by Orwell, is that the rest of the world is normal and Britain was just, sort of, like that

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The Spooky Dude @2house2fly.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

The whole world will be your enemy, prince with a thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will smash you with a hammer. But first they must catch you.

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Adrian Bott @cavalorn.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

sometimes you don't realise your writing influences until long after the fact www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRXt...

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Butthole Surfers - Pepper

YouTube video by ButtholeSurfersVEVO

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I don't really talk about this, because I'm actually quite private about my personal life, but many many years ago Tony Head took me under his wing and showed me the kind of person I could be. It's not an exaggeration to say that I'm the person I am today because of the kindness he showed me.

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Lucas Schuneman @lucasschuneman.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Looks like I'm signing a 5-year contract to teach in the UK! And since longer contracts = higher visa fees, I'm selling signed autograph prints and video shoutouts to offset costs. You'll find links to help out in the thread; shares & reposts are greatly appreciated!!

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Woman Rapidly Stamping Papers

ALT: Woman Rapidly Stamping Papers

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Adrian Bott @cavalorn.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

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Karen Carpenter’s Halloween @kellylink.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 05/04/2026

“Copy Moon joy” #Artemis

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oh my god, those naïve idiots saw him on TV pretending to be competent as part of a TV show, so they thought he was ACTUALLY competent, so they PUT THE DAFT OAF IN CHARGE? And of course he was completely out of his depth? wow I do love Galaxy Quest (1999)

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From 1789: this is the earliest known visual depiction of the Easter Hare, who would ultimately become the Easter Bunny Please note that he is bringing the eggs in a basket, thus settling the question of whether the bunny lays the eggs or not

An illustration from 'National-Kinderlieder für die Zürchersche Jugend' (1789) showing the earliest known depiction of the Easter Hare, along with a basket of Easter eggs, and a mother and children hunting for the Easter eggs in a garden

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The joy, the JOY of finding that the Chortlemuffin Effect has been transposed to bsky

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This will always be my favourite reconstruction of Ulysses 31. We just don't see this kind of dedication any more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMpf...

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Ulysses 31 Redux

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 05/04/2026

A HD remaster of Ulysses 31 (1982) is coming today on a French network!! 🤩

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 05/04/2026

"A sneak peek at the HD restoration of the #Ulysses31 series. This new scan fully reveals the richness of TMS's work, including the character designs by Shingo Araki and Michi Himeno. I never imagined I'd be able to rediscover this cult classic in such high quality. Thank you! 🤩" Oh my.

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In any event, the motive we impute to Bede for speculating is secondary to the fact that he *did* speculate, and admits to having done so.

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This may be why he mistranslates 'mud-month' as 'month of cakes'. It gives him an opening to mention a pagan practice of offering cakes to the Gods. He also mentions sacrifices to Hretha in the following month, a goddess who - like Eostre - is not attested outside of Bede.

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That is the core rhetorical device he's working with here. These were the old sacrifices, this is the new sacrifice. The more he can show the new sacrifice - those of praise - replacing old ones, the better his argument works.

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He concludes this section of De Temporum Ratione with the words 'Good Jesu, thanks be to thee, who hast turned us away from these vanities and given us to offer to thee the sacrifice of praise.'

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Bede had an agenda. He wanted to depict his people as having been mired in idolatry before Gregory and Augustine brought Christianity to them. He was also deeply critical of the native British 'Celtic' church for not having attempted to convert the Germanic pagan invaders.

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So we can safely say that Bede was a) not working from first-hand information, and b) engaging in speculation concerning the meaning of the old pagan English terms. The next question is why he would have wanted to infer pagan rituals and deities in the first place when he was a Christian.

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