A Welsh-language road sign causes confusion when it suggests that cyclists have a bladder infection.
Month: August 2006
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Flanders and Flanders
Interesting fact of which I was not aware: Stephanie Flanders (the BBC journalist) is the daughter of Michael Flanders, of Flanders and Swann fame. Flanders and Swann Online – Lyrics sorted by Title. He died when she was 7.
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The original Crystal Maze
I’m in Paris this evening, and have come home after dinner (I have an early train to Barcelona) to a bizarre but rather engaging French game show on France 2 called Fort Boyard. It’s a puzzles-and-physical-challenges show set in a real Napoleonic fort on a sandbank off the Normandy coast. Top that, Countdown!
It was, apparently, the original for the UK show the Crystal Maze, and I have to say it’s quite a bit better – as is perhaps shown by the fact that this is series 17!
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The happiest place on earth
The BBC reports that Brightonians are th happiest and most positive people in the UK.
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The Paranoid Style in American Politics
A famous essay from 1964, here.