This reminds me of Sir Terry Pratchett's amazing stories for some reason.

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I know I'm stating the obvious (sorry!) but this looks more like a promotional photo showing a rough idea of what the process and the pose looked like. :) (The canvas and the painter would've been where the photo was taken from, instead of behind the model, obviously.)

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I can even hear that preview image. 😬

Pauline Moran as Miss Lemon in S2E8 of Poirot, “The Kidnapped Prime Minister”.

David Suchet as Hercule Poirot

Philip Jackson as Chief Inspector Japp

Pauline Moran as Miss Lemon

"It was a name like Batleigh."

"Catleigh? Datleigh? Fatleigh? Gatleigh? Hatleigh?"

"Summerscote Hall."

"Yes."

Bathory - One Rode to Asa Bay // Acoustic Black Metal Cover YouTube video by autolysia

In case you like Bathory and/or wonder what a fantasy #ttrpg bard could play when feeling melodically gloomy yet also majestic somehow:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=It1S...

I know this is going to sound somewhat weird, but I think this article would feel more reliable if it didn't have April 1 as its publication date.

If I were them, I'd even consider republishing it.

At first glance (without noticing the account that posted it) I thought this was a quote from Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".

Misreading "spout" as "sprout" didn't help.

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Modern People: "Silent movies are boring!"

Silent Movies:

a man in a leather jacket is riding a motorcycle ALT: a man in a leather jacket is riding a motorcycle

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Best Star Trek crew, wrong answer only

Astronaut’s Condition That Led to Space Station Evacuation Remains a Mystery The astronaut, Michael Fincke, experienced a medical emergency in January that rendered him unable to speak, he said.

Astronaut Michael Fincke was rendered unable to speak while on the ISS, prompting an evacuation to Earth. “We’re almost 100% sure that this is a space-related thing.” Uh, I’ve been reading a lot of sci-fi recently; this is *exactly* how It starts. [nytimes.com]

A sign on the fence of a graveyard. It reads "No use of geiger counters on church property."

This sign raises many questions, which probably should be answered by the sign but aren't

The Temple of Emmental Evil

A rather cheesy take on the classic #ttrpg adventure

(I'm sure I'm not the first to have thought of this, but whatever.)

That would be The Fall of Delta Green ( www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/2... ) from 2018, wouldn't it? 🤔

Sure. And I can only hope the designer didn't do this on purpose.

I'm sorry, but as a sometime book cover designer I'm not sure I'm a fan of _this_ specific cover design and this specific typography of George R.R. Martin's "Death of the Author".

Oh, wait, it's Nnedi Okorafor's "Death of the Author".

Maybe it's just me, though.

YMMV, obviously.

That's weird. He's not been posting much, but his FB account is active. Try this link (it should even work w/out an FB acc, just decline all the cookies you can)
www.facebook.com/tim.bradstre...

Here's what I'm seeing there:

Tim Bradstreet (@tim.bradstreet) • Instagram 5,715 Followers - 32 Posts - "Making an extended stop in Orlando for MegaCon. Thursday through Sunday at the Orange County Convention Center. I'll hav…"

In case this isn't just a theoretical question (and me having missed some context): www.instagram.com/tim.bradstre...

Yeah, nice, using a random pigeon is casting your message into the ocean of air in a bottle indeed. (This may be a littering offense in many parts of the world, though, so don't do it outside stories.)

(via the recommendations engine or something :))

Édes Anna - Wikipedia

As a footnote: Édes Anna (Anna Sweet) is also the title of a rather dark & hereabouts famous literary novel from 1926, written by Dezső Kosztolányi. It's also been adapted to film (see the link below.)

I'm not sure how this relates to the minced paprika, if at all.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89d...

(Sorry for chiming in, but that's "just" minced, non-hot paprika, plus some preservatives etc, including salt, which the label specifically warns the customer about. Its name "Édes Anna" (Sweet Anne) is a play on its rather hot, classic counterpart "Erős Pista" (Strong i.e. Hot Steve). :D )

This is what's missing:

PS: No, this is not official, this is a brilliant cover by some guys, and no, that's not Hetfield there, obviously. :D

If #ATLASRISE was on ...#AJFA +VOCALS YouTube video by Voice of the 90's

"Old" (haha, isn't that relative) but still gold.

If #Metallica 's "Atlas Rise" was on their 1988 "...And Justice For All" album (which is probably my fav record of theirs, yes, with the "bad" production/mixing, or maybe partly because of that.) Simply brilliant.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrwI...

How Japan Lied to You About Ninja YouTube video by nathaniel cho

Haha, as most comments say, this is exactly what a ninja would have you believe. 🙃🥷🏻

I mean, it's an interesting, apparently (!) well-researched video about ninjas… and how they didn't really exist.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUXM...

I mean, yes?

Scritch Scratch, the original short story behind the Call of Cthulhu scenario, is in this collection, and in some whoppingly illustrious company

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