Tag Archives: Britain

Monty Python quiz

3/24/2008 – 12:36 pm

A Monty Python Quiz

Score: 83% (10 out of 12)

I’m surprised I did so well, to be honest. I missed #3 and #12.

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Scotland today

3/24/2008 – 11:33 am

“Scotland Today” from Reformation21.

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“The ice is back.”

2/25/2008 – 1:14 pm

This winter is apparently one of the worst in modern meteorological history; in other news, there may be more to ice cap melting than just ozone depletion. (Hello, wind effects on ocean currents! Didn’t anybody else learn that part of the reason people who aren’t from Iceland can live in Great Britain is [...]

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Kissing cousins

2/10/2008 – 7:31 pm

This is truly a sign of the times: an MP in Britain is being called an Islamophobe because he had the unmitigated gall to suggest that marrying first cousins is genetically a bad idea.

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We HATE Prince George, we HATE Prince George

1/15/2008 – 1:05 pm

Fans of Blackadder the Third might be interested in the actual history of Prince George, which demonstrates just how much thought went into the scripts for the show.

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Awww

12/21/2007 – 8:20 am

This is kind of neat.

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Remember, remember

11/5/2007 – 3:24 pm

It’s that time of year again.
Remember, remember the Fifth of November,
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,
I know of no reason
Why Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.
It’s sad; I am my wife are among the most Anglophilic people we know (save those who married them), and still, when I think about Guy Fawkes, all I can think of [...]

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John Inman

3/8/2007 – 5:31 pm

John Inman is dead. I laughed quite a bit because of this man. It’s a shame that he probably didn’t know the Lord.

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Six notes here and there

4/24/2006 – 7:36 am

First, let me point out that I am going to have to close comments on older posts, because the spam is getting to me. I will still leave comments open on newer posts.
Second, I had a sleep study this weekend. I slept very badly on a rock-hard mattress with 28 wires attached to [...]

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