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Richard Butt

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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Isn’t that why there’s a thingy on your car radio that lets BBC local radio interrupt what you’re listening to, so you can hear announcements that might be relevant to you?
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It’s like deja vu all over again
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
PractiSIng as verb in British English
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Five years ago
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Really missing being in a newsroom today. General election nights are as exciting as an exciting thing. Anyway, I've already voted, exercising-your-democratic-rights fans.
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
And now it’s important to be able to cook an omelette quickly.
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I came here to say that
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Everything in supermarkets should be in alphabetical order. Problem solved.
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Independent Television Television South Television
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I think his full name is Sir King Prince Charles of Wales III.
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Must be a hoopy frood
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Cow helps his Dog pal get his stuffy and they play
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Should have been a spinoff series centring on Servalan.
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Best intro ever
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
And turquoise? Puce? Then there’s the brown problem.
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
One of my promo pages. Defensive, me?
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
You are not going to lie on your deathbed and wish that you'd spent more time doom scrolling on your phone whilst the people around you that gave a shit slowly drifted away.
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
And the South Humberside Institute of Technology
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Sitting, surely
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Sainsbury’s’s
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
SextupleU
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Rest in Peace, Donald, your ex would like a word with your old pals in Australia.
Death notice (possibly in the Maidenhead Advertiser)

DONALD
MacDONALD
RIP
Formerly AT
W Drayton air traffic station
Fondly remembered
as a squash, bridge & home brew expert.
Member of a prestige bridge club in Victoria, got kicked out for peeing in a flower pot
Passed away in Australia a week ago.Letter (possibly to the Maidenhead Advertiser)

Clearing up the source of death announcement

Whilst I have informed those who need to know of my ex-husband's death in Australia, where he has lived for the last 20 odd years, I would like to make it crystal clear to anyone that knows me or knew him, that l did not place the announcement of his demise in last week's paper.
Whilst I have been divorced for nearly 30 years, he was the father of my daughters and grandfather of my grandsons, and we regret his death.
None of them would appreciate the crass memory included in the announcement sent in by one of his ex-drinking partners.
HELEN MACDONALD
Maidenhead
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Very few don’t sing in English.
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Daffodils are the best flower. They signal an end to all the shitty cold and miserable weather. It was there for Snowdrops to win the award, but they just look too sad.
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Ultravox! Until they changed their name to Ultravox
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
It is unconscionable that we have allowed the French to embed their flag in our toothpaste.
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Happy tenth anniversary to this absolute masterpiece of an opening paragraph in the Daily Telegraph. "We tried trickle-down economics and it just didn't work!" they wailed, "Why must we have so much money?"
CHARLES MOORE NOTEBOOK
You often hear of people being
"trapped in poverty", but it is
also possible to be trapped in wealth. This is David Cameron's fate.
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Never heard of it. Happy?
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Salford: we’re not Manchester!
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Seaview
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
I wonder why Nigel Farage has pulled out of The Laura Kuenssberg TV programme this morning? 🤔
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Altrincham Dry Cleaners @altydrycleaners.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Yeah hi a bit of cured sausage fell out of someone’s clothes please contact us if you want your bit of cured sausage back. This one feels important please share
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Five years ago
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Your annual reminder that Christmas is not all about mirth and merry-making. Mrs Brown’s Boys is on BBC1 at 10.15.
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
The American author Bill Bryson rightly pointed out that there are more accents between the Trent and the Tweed (the north of England) than the whole of North America. Geographical accents make up only part of it. Class accents add an extra layer of complexity.
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Same with cafes (or “coffee shops”). One queue for those of us who drink black filter coffee, another for those who want fancypants coffeelattoacinos etc.
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Altrincham Dry Cleaners @altydrycleaners.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
People who do the weekly shop in a petrol station at rush hour. A word, please.
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Five years ago
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Fatal?
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Isle of Man Examiner 1944
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Got any mice that need lathering?
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Anyone who owns a building with a clock on it should be legally obligated to ensure it tells the correct time.
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
The best bit was you could indulge your inner introvert. If you saw someone you knew you could just nod and smile rather than have to try to come up with some inane small talk.
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
In the 80s when Spitting Image was at its height, everyone seemed to know the names of all the members of the cabinet and shadow cabinet.
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
White Horses. Argument over.
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
No gavels in British courts
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Fourteen years ago. Alfred Cannan, Howard Quayle elected
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Richard Butt @richardbutt.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Papers didn’t start to really grow until the 80s. Remember having to split the Sunday Times into its different sections and take out the colour supplement to squeeze the whole paper in dribs and drabs through letterboxes designed by Victorians for, well, letters.
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