nourishing obscurity

Where would you expect to see made: 1.  The creamy and slightly nutty cheese called ‘Swinzie’; 2.  Gubbeen, from the Gaelic word meaning ‘small mouth’; 3.  Merlin, from handmade goats’ cheese; 4.  Fine Fettle Curd Cheese, a feta cheese; 5.  Epoisses – give the French administrative région? Answers: Ayrshire, Scotland; Schull, Ireland; Wales; Yorkshire; Burgundy [...]

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Some earth facts from Robert Roy Britt, of Spacedotcom: 1.  What makes thunder? The air around a lightning bolt is superheated to about five times the temperature of the sun. This sudden heating causes the air to expand faster than the speed of sound, which compresses the air and forms a shock wave; we hear [...]

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It never rains but it pours.  You can go for days without anything much happening and then so many things happen in one day.

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You get which colour if you mix: 1.  Red with green; 2.  Red with blue; 3.  Green with blue; 4.  Black with white; 5.  All of those together? Answers: yellow, purple/magenta, aqua/cyan, grey, white

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Our train paper has thrown up another one – a bus where people chat.  You know, you’ve run for the bus and only just caught it or else you’ve been queuing and once you get on, the conductor – yes, an actual conductor – urges you, through his microphone, to relate to your fellow passengers [...]

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The train paper reported yesterday: Third of bosses to axe jobs in coming months. No more nor less than I and many others have been saying since last year – faux recovery, manifest in the markets and in obscene bank profits, e.g. Lloyds but the average person knows it’s not right. I predicted the end [...]

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Salma Hayek was a bit hot for the blood so this is the group’s version:

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1.  Which American state passed a law in May authorizing officials to ignore repeated requests for birth certificates? 2.  Which company did Mark Hurd work for? 3.  Who recently departed on a round-the-world voyage? 4.  In which city will the next G20 meeting be held? 5.  Who’s the main opposition leader in Canada? Answers:  Hawaii,  [...]

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Aaaaaaggghh!   I’ve just recovered my faculties after reading one of the most amazingly crass statements in a long, long while: I find Audrey Hepburn fantastically twee,” Thompson said. “Twee is whimsy without wit. It’s mimsy-mumsy sweetness without any kind of bite. And that’s not for me. She can’t sing and she can’t really act, I’m [...]

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There was much evidence in the various Lindy Chamberlain trials and hearings and just as the media and the majority of the public  got behind the conviction on October 29th, 1982 and then turned against the conviction after the matinee jacket was found, so it became anathema to question the perceived wisdom that Mrs. Chamberlain [...]

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Have you ever looked at a news item and realized that the person named was someone you had been with long ago?  Not only that but you had no idea who the person actually was at the time? Recently, whenever I can find a non-tired hour, I’ve been throwing names into google in an attempt [...]

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It would have to be the definitive version:

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Visitors to our land explain what they think of it. A commenter in the MSM today says: Conservatives liberal democrats and new liebore are ruled by Brussels as far as immigration is concerned. They haven’t got a cat in hell’s chance of stopping the flow of immigrant workers from the EU. What they CAN and [...]

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