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Tout passe, tout lasse, tout casse. Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. Every joke is a tiny revolution. God keep me from ever completing anything.... Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!

From https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-pm-cuts-tax-on-household-electricity-bills-to-give-breathing-space-on-cost-of-living?hl=en-GB Government is tackling rising bills with a tax cut to remove VAT from domestic electricity bills from October 1 in time to impact the next Ofgem price cap. This immediate action applies and is funded for this financial year. The cost of this immediate action for this financial year - taken now, before the next price cap - is being funded from the cancellation of the (£1.8bn) Digital ID programme.
Cover of the novel "Life: A User's Manual" by Georges Perec
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Cover of BBC Records "Music Time" with Kathryn Harries and Peter Combe who is not Kevin Keegan as far as I know
The "that's the joke" meme in some approximation to Homeric Greek
BBC headline: Bruno Mars has an unexpected opening before Wembley party starts
S. J. Perelman with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor
Notification from Arte: The Odyssey out in Cinemas Discover the original in our animated series
Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey. I get the impression that he really needs something to do.
From the Aeneid, Robert Fitzgerald translation: It must be brought to its place, they cried, the goddess Must be appeased. We broke the walls, exposing The city's battlements, and all were busy Helping the work, with rollers underfoot And ropes around the neck. It climbed our walls, The deadly engine. Boys, unwedded girls Sang alleluias round it, all rejoicing To have a hand on the tow-rope. It came nearer, Threatening, gliding, into the very city, O motherland! O Ilium, home of gods, O walls of Troy! Four times it stopped, four times The sound of arms came from it, and we pressed on, Unheedful, blind in madness, till we set it, Ill-omened thing, on the citadel we worshipped. And even when Cassandra gave us warning, We never believed her; so a god had ordered
while the warriors led by Odysseus crouched inside the gigantic horse, in the Trojan assembly place, for the Trojans themselves had brought it into their city. There it stood, and the people sat all around it for a long time, debating what should be done. Three different plans were proposed. Some people wanted to chop it open with axes, others to haul it to the edge of the cliff and push it on to the rocks, while a third group wanted to let it stand there and be an offering to the gods, which might win their favour. And that was the plan they settled upon in the end, for fate had decreed that the city must fall on the very day it took in the great horse, with the best of the
Children drinking free school milk
The Apu taking a bullet meme, but with Mitch McConnell who is still very much with us, and Lindsey Graham who is not
The Apu taking a bullet meme, but with Mitch McConnell who is still very much with us and the late Lindsey Graham
Robert Lindsay as Wolfie Smith
From Act III Scene ii of Hamlet: HAM. Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel? PoL. By th' mass and 'tis, like a camel indeed. HAM. Methinks it is like a weasel. Por. It is back'd like a weasel. HAM. Or like a whale. PoL. Very like a whale.
A tweet from Elon Musk X @elonmusk. You don't seem to understand that SpaceX will be worth more than the rest of Earth if we accomplish our goals
"Sun in an Empty Room" by Edward Hopper
Still from the film "Synecdoche, New York"
BBC headline: Watch live as Madueke replaces Saka in England XI to face DR Congo in World Cup
Picture from Google Earth of the Magic Roundabout in Swindon
A beautiful grey cat with amber eyes
Punch cartoon by J W Taylor: A 19th century publisher to a lady: "We like the plot, Miss Austen, but all this effing and blinding will have to go."
It's big-hearted Arthur ASCII Ay thang yew
From the Graham Greene short story "The Innocent": to. She was a year older than I was: she must have been just on the point of eight. I loved her with an intensity I have never felt since, I believe, for anyone. At least I have never made the mistake of laughing at children's love. It has a terrible inevitability of separation because there can be no satisfaction. Of course one invents tales of houses on fire, of war and forlorn charges which prove one's courage in her eyes, but never of marriage. One knows without being told that that can't happen, but the knowledge doesn't mean that one suffers less. I remembered all the games of
Five CDs: three by Mitsuko Uchida of Schubert piano sonatas, one of Ligeti vocal works, and a Pierre-Laurent Aimard recital from 2001
Cover of a CD: "Happiness" by Ken Dodd
Brains off of "Thunderbirds" yesterday
Still from "Synecdoche, New York"
Japanese > English Change That's right, the universe has nothing to do, so the story that I decided to decide at the point and Hoshino was surprised. It looks like you're making a mark and make a mark as not to get lost in the dark universe, so it's warm. In your space, what happened to what happens?
A tartan car
90s American political sitcom The Powers That Be, with John Forsyth off of Dynasty I think, and a young and predictably brilliant David Hyde Pierce
Kid with fake moustache: WASSUP FELLOW OLD PEOPLE
BBC headline: Thunderstorms threaten Trump's UFC cage fight on the White House lawn
Blocked by someone called @stevenhseggie.bsky.social
Headline from the Daily Record: Watch 'psychic' Highland cows predict Scotland's World Cup chances
A Sinclair Cambridge Z88, apparently pristine apart from a lot of foam crumbs
The front of the Kennedy Center: where Donald Trump's name was added is shrouded in tarpaulin
Toni Servillo and Filippo Scotti in the Sorrentino film "The Hand Of God"
Good/bad meme: Delivery is four stops away Delivery is thirty miles away
A tree from the Harley Psalter rather in the style of Doctor Suess
Article saying worlds biggest scorpions were the size of baseball bats
Screenshot of a search online: Emeric Pressburger ... Hungarian-British screenwriter and film director Overview Movies Books
Couple of tweets from badly drawn bee: Nov 10, 2024 And you know l've saved the most remarkable to last, right? United Kingdom. Are you ready for it? I'm not sure you're ready for it. Nov 10, 2024 Are you ready? I mean, really really ready?
It's the "You've always been the caretaker here" scene from The Shining, but with Mr Blobby
The ending of the Isaac Asimov short story "All The Troubles Of The World": Othman used the instrument on Gulliman's desk. His fingers punched out the question with deft strokes: 'Multivac, what do you yourself want more than anything else?' The moment between question and answer lengthened unbearably, but neither Othman nor Gulliman breathed. And there was a clicking and a card popped out. It was a small card. On it, in precise letters, was the answer: 'I want to die.'
The poster included with David Bowie's LP "The Man Who Sold The World"
Screenshot from "The Thick Of It" wiki: Biographical INFORMATION FULL NAME Dr. Stewart Pearson. PhD ALIAS(ES) • The Human Router • Gianr Fucking Spunk Lolly . Walking Thought Pod . Doctor Jazz • Spin Doctor Spat . Prancing Shit • Captain Mainwaring . Stupot • Goatee Bearded Guru Boy of Company B • Mr. Political Correctness Gone Boring • Lad From Leeds With a Lust for Life
Lorraine Chase on Blankety Blank holding up a card reading "TV REMOTE" in handwriting which in no way resembles Lorraine Chase's. I've got stuff to do, I can't spend the morning trying to imitate Lorraine Chase's handwriting
An LP cover: Geoff Love and his Orchestra play BIG WAR MOVIE Themes
Screenshot of the last three names of the "Top cast" bit of IMDB's entry for the film "Nicholas and Alexandria" - Laurence Olivier Eric Porter Michael Redgrave
A Strohviol: invented in the early days of sound recording by, unsurprisingly, a man named Stroh
Music player screen: Bach's keyboard partita #6, played by Mahan Esfahani
Illustration by Rudyard Kipling of The Cat That Walked By Himself
Star Trek title screen: "I never could get the hang of Thursdays"
BBC headline: LIVE Andrew preferred to visit 'more sophisticated countries', trade envoy files show
Stewart Lee from before he let himself go
A book cover: ABSOLUTELY NO THOUGHTS OF POUNDING DURING MY FUN DAY WITH THIS KIND T - REX BECAUSE I'M AROMANTIC AND ASEXUAL AND THAT'S A WONDERFULLY VALID WAY TO PROVE LOVE IS REAL FROM TWO TIME HUGO AWARD FINALIST CHUCK TINGLE
A guide to six types of USB connectors
Jimmy Conway is annoyed at an associate for buying his wife a fur coat shortly after a successful business deal