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he was very fast. Like Sinister Dexter

this pales in the face of Bous list of scary things though

well for sure, I remain un-shot. I can see it from his point of view; he may well have thought I was about to have a go at him.  But it was scary

having a gun pointed at me by an off-duty security guard in a convenience store. In fairness to him I had drunkenly asked him if it wasn`t hard to draw the gun when it was up close to his armpit, not down around his waist like in the cowboy movies.

six earthqakes in one night

you could keep small or non-existent things in it...Tony Blair`s integrity, Bryan Adam`s talent, Keith Richards` sobriety etc

attach it to your head with a rubber band to make a very small fez

put it someone else`s desk, then remove it after they`ve filled it with pens

look thoughtful next to it and tell people you`re `thinking outside the box`
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bump. this is still an excellent idea.

my students love it.

annoyingly, most of them have mobile phone email addresses which are insanely hard to type in

that`s great, and fast too. Thanks GC

excellent stuff - I think I`ll use it with my students

by the way, does anyone know where the American term Kris Kringle comes from? I think it means the same thing as secret santa but I`m not sure why

there`s never a bad place to name drop that you`ve met Noam Chomsky. What did you talk about?

Gore Vidal rules. "Only a total egomaniac could write a book whose sole subject is Henry Miller in all his sweet monotony"

(describing Mick Jagger)..." a slightly donnish British businessman"

"I can`t read Truman Capote. I`m diabetic"

"Look, we live, we are, says Chekhov. While Shaw declares briskly: Pull up your socks! Fall in line there. Come along now and we`ll overtake the future by morning!!"

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Congratulations Keef! I haven`t read your letter yet but well done!

your fellow epistophile

one of them is my evil twin

his girlfriend`s latest column is about how women should keep working after they have children. She gives the example of `a friend` whose wife lost interest in sex after she stopped working, so their marriage fell apart

hmmmmmmmmmmmm

Couldn`t happen to a nicer person. I`ve been reading the Spectator for ages, because I like the book reviews and some of the columnists. But Boris Johnson is a pain; writes in this twitty `Beano` style, obviously thinking he`s the new P.G Wodehouse. Ms Wyatt has a similar delusion, she thinks she`s Dorthy Parker, whereas in fact, she`s just a spoiled narcissist.
  Oh well, he did print Jeremy Clarke, which was a good idea

I made a mistake there. Max was right. So the first time machine should have been invented ten minutes after HG Wells` book was published.
  Alan Moore sent super heroes into the Vietnam war about 19 years ago. And I just read about it last week (in Watchmen).
  Actually, it`s not all that edgy to question a war which a lot of Americans are questioning anyway. I remember Iron Man, after being started fighting evil commie warlords in Vietnam, going back there and discovering that a sniper was, sob, just a kid. He (Iron Man, not the kid) then flew into the air and blasted a huge, poignant `why?` into the ground.
   Dunno if Capt America ever questioned the Vietnam war, but I remember he was so disgusted by the Watergate scandal that he changed costumes completely (like that`s going to achieve anything...about as useful as writing `Why?` on the ground in a Vietnamese jungle)
(pauses to sing `reminiscing`)
  What is LGF anyway?