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Professor and writer. Anonymous on Twitter for no good reason (but no bad reason). ⬛⬜🟪

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@YORK_FD Easy to service? The company that installed it can’t even fix mine.

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@wisemandebbie @BBCOne @SilvaScreen @RoughTradeRecs Love the soundtrack! What was the melodic theme at the end of Episode 5, as Cromwell heads to the fateful council meeting? I definitely recognized it, but I’m not sure from where. Is it from earlier in the series or is it based on a particular piece?

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If necessity is the mother of invention, the mother of necessity is the grandmother of invention.

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@aptshadow I almost wish it continued:

And when they looked upon a horse
It simply uttered "neigh."
O tidings (etc...)

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The "His Dark Materials" title theme sounds like the fantasy version of the Taskmaster title theme.

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A clerihew (and also a subtle allegory about the role of American southern Baptism in the politicization of modern US public-health debates):

Saint Corentin of Quimper
Didn't quarantine or whimper.
He got his every wish
From a magical fish.

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@fesshole Which other part of the animal would you prefer?

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@beldolorstudios @aptshadow The Unspeakable Aklu is the best concept for a "gangster" I've ever encountered in science fiction! (I usually find portrayals of sci-fi crime lords very boring.) And I love how much about him and the Broken Harvest is left as an exercise for the reader.

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Webb doesn't play dice with the universe. #NASAWebb

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Also, they'd better never vote to leave the EU, because "Romaniexit" would be too confusing a term.

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It doesn’t seem right that Romania is a net importer of lettuce.

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@JohnFinnemore @steve_r_ncl @xmona123 And peccable.

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"You have sat there too long for all the good you have done. In the name of God, go!" is coincidentally what I mutter under my breath to a lot of drivers.

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One interesting thing about this game is that somehow you can randomly be in sync with it and do much better than you have any right to do.

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'Mary Had a Little Lamb' is based on a true story: Mary actually brought a little lamb to school one day, and people thought it was memorable enough to sing songs about it, like heroic feats of old. (True fact.)

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@vdotedgy Ha! Thank you - I think they've had that for a while but I hadn't thought about it in ages. They have a few others too. Searching for 'blink HTML' is among the least charming, but askew is very cute. Thanks again!

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@vdotedgy @ImMisterAl @H_in_MLand @juliabrown Ha, I like that! Thanks for noticing - I figured it was too subtle a rotation to stand out in general. :)

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@vdotedgy @ImMisterAl @H_in_MLand @juliabrown Ooh, just got it. Thanks for sharing the puzzle!

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I was slow to realize this, but it just occurred to me that Gally would have written 'The Fellow with the Cello' so she could proclaim her love to Susannah in public, though covertly. #halfaglass

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Wow, thanks to everyone involved with this in any way. Such goodness and humanity captured in the writing, the performances, and the little community of people talking about it here! #halfaglass