Humor Verily, who is in the primary position 10 Jan 2008 A classic Abbott and Costello skit, done in Elizabethan English. Video below the fold. Read More
Administrative Talkorigins.org back up 12 Jan 2009 The website www.talkorigins.org is now back up, although links to the temporary archive www.toarchive.org/ still work for now. The story is roughly this – the company (joker.com) we bought the domain name from reassigned the IP number for the site as part of changing their data centre. They apparently sent… Read More
If you check my blog, I’ve been there. There’s even a blue plaque (not for me, but for Willoe Rushton, humorist).
Are you trying to make me homesick? I spent several years of my youth, misspent naturally, living between Tottenham Court Road and (Sunny) Goodge Street (spot the song title?) tube stations, to begin to the right of Tottenham Court Road going north, in Bloomsbury, and later to the left in what the locals call Fitzrovia but which is officially North Soho. The pop art mosaics in Tottenham Court Road Tube Station were designed by Eduardo Paolozzi with whom I flew kites during the endless summer of my childhood in a backwater hamlet on the Essex marshes. He also did the bronze statue of Blake’s Newton in the courtyard of the British Library. A sculture combining my favourite poet and my favourite scientist. There’s a small copy in the entrance to the Royal Society Library You’ve never been to Mornington Crescent until you’ve climbed the stairs because the lifts were out of order!
Well, it is Friday, so we should be using the long lines at the bank protocol, with the early weekend getaway variation. Anticipating this, I used the ask for the afternoon off substitution so I call a remote Sydney Fish Market.