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Mark Osterloh @osterlohatlarge.bsky.social · 3h

Nope. I’m actually your proctologist, which is why I’m giving you the finger.

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Mark Osterloh @osterlohatlarge.bsky.social · 8h

… and a chance of red rain falling down in parts of south east England.

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Mark Osterloh @osterlohatlarge.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Hope you were throwing stuff away, otherwise that would just be weird.

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Mark Osterloh @osterlohatlarge.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

By happenstance, I was just listening to Reasons for Waiting from their second album, Stand Up. Beautifully bucolic with some lovely sweeping string arrangements.

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Mark Osterloh @osterlohatlarge.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

KOALA: Do you still have that ancient relative with the weird surname who can jump real high? KANGAROO: Oh sure, you must mean Old Ma Supial. KOALA: Where is she now? KANGAROO: Outback.

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Mark Osterloh @osterlohatlarge.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Wait ‘til you hear about the stone tapes…

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Mark Osterloh @osterlohatlarge.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Looks like Barbie, speaks like Ken (and as plastic as both).

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Mark Osterloh @osterlohatlarge.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

She’s probably older than she’s letting on and smarting over the time she swapped wax cylinder compilations with a prospective paramour (he put hers too close to the fire and all her carefully curated tracks merged into the sound of 12 terrified monks screaming for help from the bottom of a well).

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Mark Osterloh @osterlohatlarge.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Pain shared. Different operator but the sentiments expressed are germane: open.spotify.com/track/0cWFY9...

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Southern Trains

The Darkness · Pinewood Smile · Song · 2017

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Mark Osterloh @osterlohatlarge.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

He looks like an evil Bee Gee from Star Trek’s mirror universe.

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Mark Osterloh @osterlohatlarge.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I likewise spent a term at poly throwing bags of soiled sheets and out of date medicines into a big black victorian furnace in the bowels of the Royal Brompton Heart & Lung Hospital. Dark Night? Dark days too, Ben.

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Mark Osterloh @osterlohatlarge.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

“Hey! I’ve got a new job at the bowling alley!” “Tenpin?” “No. It’s a permanent contract!”

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Mark Osterloh @osterlohatlarge.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I try not to fret about these things.

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Mark Osterloh @osterlohatlarge.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I heard he could also be a right pain in the arias.

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Mark Osterloh @osterlohatlarge.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Making people walk the plank… without a plank?

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Mark Osterloh @osterlohatlarge.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Great review, as ever, if only for drawing my attention to the excellent phrase “sea bastard” (pretty sure I saw them support Anthrax at the Hammersmith Odeon in ‘87).

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Mark Osterloh @osterlohatlarge.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Love Kenneth Horne. He was one of those comedians and satirists who seemed ahead of their time. Self awareness, wit, wordplay and innuendo, delivered with sophistication and elan.

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Mark Osterloh @osterlohatlarge.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

By curious happenstance I am also writing a church based murder mystery involving a manhunt for the composer of Bright Eyes and Wombling Merry Christmas. It’s called Batt’s In The Belfry.

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Mark Osterloh @osterlohatlarge.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Biff Byford is my Saxon king… wealds of steel.

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Mark Osterloh @osterlohatlarge.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

And some of us would be unable to look at a pair of hands and count to 12.

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Mark Osterloh @osterlohatlarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Same same. From now on, I wish to be known as Robin Uranus.

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Mark Osterloh @osterlohatlarge.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ha ha, Disputin’, lover of the war machine.

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Mark Osterloh @osterlohatlarge.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I like farmers, especially the cattle ones. As for the rest, they’re arable.

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Mark Osterloh @osterlohatlarge.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

They should call them Jenner-ation Specs.

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Mark Osterloh @osterlohatlarge.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Am I meant to shout “Schnapps!” at this point?

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Mark Osterloh @osterlohatlarge.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Well, I appreciated it. Maybe everyone else is too distracted by grief and planning memorial shepherds pie and champagne parties.

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Mark Osterloh @osterlohatlarge.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Are you suggesting I used ChirpGPT?

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Mark Osterloh @osterlohatlarge.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The swan mad lead vocalist and guitarist of 80s era Ultravox wrote a paean to the young of these majestic estuary birds. He played it so often, it became known as his Cygnet Ure tune.

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Mark Osterloh @osterlohatlarge.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s like a less homespun version of the Dad’s Army title sequence. Who do they think they are kidding…?

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Mark Osterloh @osterlohatlarge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One involves moving at speed, the other could involve moving on speed. Two entirely different disciplines. Go for it.

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Mark Osterloh @osterlohatlarge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The weird thing is, I am straight and I absolutely love nuts.

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Mark Osterloh @osterlohatlarge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Spy Who Was Struck With Ennui The Spy Who Came In From Another Espionage Novel The Spy Who Was Given A Verbal Then Written Warning, Followed By a Disciplinary Because He Failed To Remove The Cameras From The Unisex Toilets And Delete All Footage From The Shared Drive

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Mark Osterloh @osterlohatlarge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

He may not be an expert in AI but he knows plenty about the algorithm method.

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Mark Osterloh @osterlohatlarge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You’ve made my Sumner. (I’m in Spain, where it’s feeling less than Autumnal, so forgive my seasonal inexactitude)

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Mark Osterloh @osterlohatlarge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Had it been the King’s private urinal, Sting might have asked you not to stand so close to him.

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Mark Osterloh @osterlohatlarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“I’ve seen garlic cloves you people wouldn’t believe…”

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Mark Osterloh @osterlohatlarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It appears live audiences will soon be able to assess the percentage of Gareth’s girth for themselves…

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Mark Osterloh @osterlohatlarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ME: I saw a ventriloquist’s dummy being transported, piece by piece, to a new home once. SHOP OWNER: So, arms, head, torso…? ME: Well, I didn’t see the lips move…

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Mark Osterloh @osterlohatlarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I thought AI was the biggest threat. Terminator: Rise of The Washing Machines.

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Mark Osterloh @osterlohatlarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

ME: Arthurian tales get me so excited. YOU: Camelot? ME: Not as often as I used to.

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Mark Osterloh @osterlohatlarge.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’d like him to record the less amorously aggressive “Sexbomb Disposal Squad”, which focuses on considering the misadventures and alleged malfeasance of Andrew Mountbatten Windsor when she says “not tonight darling, I have a headache.”

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Mark Osterloh @osterlohatlarge.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Makes it sound like a brain wasting disease…. which, in a way, it is…

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Mark Osterloh @osterlohatlarge.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Great pub. Still have the occasional family get together there. And I enjoy my runs from Brandy Hole Lane to West Dean and back along the gorgeous Centurion Way.

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Mark Osterloh @osterlohatlarge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

At least there was a lot less snot and farts in Strange New Worlds.

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