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  1. @mePadraigReidy They'll be in hell because they're officially wrong: both are acceptable. flaginstitute.org/index.php?loca… about 3 hours ago via web in reply to mePadraigReidy
  2. @MinicineYorks 2 Days In New York at the Media Museum, hopefully. about 4 hours ago via web in reply to MinicineYorks
  3. @lindsay40k I had to look that up. Glad I did. Honestly, the things you can learn on Wikipedia. about 4 hours ago via web in reply to lindsay40k
  4. A bit of background on Postman's Park and the memorial mentioned by @edwestonline in that Telegraph piece: theclutterbuck.wordpress.com/2010/11/17/the… about 4 hours ago via web
  5. Heartbreaking. Ignore the Christianity bit though. MT @TomChivers this is lovely and sad almost beyond words blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/edwest/10… about 4 hours ago via web
  6. Here's a post I wrote on Mike Jay's The Air Loom Gang, the book @bengoldacre was just tweeting about: theclutterbuck.wordpress.com/2011/08/22/the… about 4 hours ago via web
  7. An incredible book MT @bengoldacre Mike Jay's amazing book on a deluded and capable early psych patient is on Kindle amzn.to/Ldy1ny about 5 hours ago via web
  8. @bengoldacre An incredible book - my blogpost on it might whet a few appetites: theclutterbuck.wordpress.com/2011/08/22/the… about 5 hours ago via web in reply to bengoldacre
  9. Couldn't find it, but Google offered up this, which isn't by Larson, and doesn't feature a futon. I liked it anyway. stevejones420.com/2008/01/14/biz… about 5 hours ago via web
  10. This (ow.ly/bfndB, via @edyong209) got me searching for the Gary Larson chimp-with-a-futon cartoon... about 5 hours ago via web
  11. "An old proverb avows the infernal origin of cooks..." - anyone know the proverb? about 6 hours ago via web
  12. @historynuts @historyweird I wrote a little blogpost about poor Cherry: theclutterbuck.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/the… about 6 hours ago via web
  13. @historynuts @historyweird "Antarctic exploration is seldom as bad as you imagine... But this journey had beggared our language." about 6 hours ago via web in reply to historynuts
  14. @TomChivers Does anyone anywhere in journalism enjoy (and I mean enjoy) a greater disconnect with his/her readers than you? In a good way. about 8 hours ago via web in reply to TomChivers
  15. Messed up the #bumfodder cover link. The lovely 1910s postcard is here: tiny.cc/yax6ew about 20 hours ago via web
  • Name Richard Smyth
  • Location Leeds, West Yorkshire
  • Web http://www.richar...
  • Bio Writer, researcher, cartoonist, quiz-setter, cruciverbalist and all-round cultural janitor.
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