A blue sky with clouds. In the foreground is a green Primary Route exit sign for the A140. The destinations given are Ipswich Diss Norwich. It’s a image I took from google Maps as I wasn’t quick enough on the draw with my camera.
In East Anglia they even put their civic/ football beefs on road signs
No lynxes in unisex nylon.
#palindrome
Fabulous, thanks so much
@scottnicholson.bsky.social Hello! Do you happen to know of a more recent study of escape rooms than your own "Peeking Behind the Locked Door"? Academic or more general, but well researched and reliable. Thanks in advance if you can help, no worries if not.
If I only had a couple of sentences of info to impart, I'd have sent a Skype/Teams/WhatsApp message. Don't blame me for your inability to pay attention.
I heard the album for the first time this morning. And for the second time later this morning. And for the third time this afternoon. It's magnificent.
I dunno, what do you think @sagathingpodcast.bsky.social?
Every so often I get surprised to discover that a word is either much older or much more recent than I think. Discovering that people have been referring to a bartender who makes cocktails as a "mixologist" since at least 1856 is definitely the former. I'd have guessed at the 1970s!
Strong “large boulder the size of a small boulder” energy here
For any British person of the right age, this only brings one thing to mind www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je3U...
Screenshot from the OED: intransitive. To watch television or films, read books, etc., for intensive or extended periods, esp. in a way regarded as excessive. In later use: esp. to watch or listen to multiple episodes of a television programme, podcast, video content on social media, etc., consecutively or in rapid succession. Frequently with a prepositional phrase introduced by on, indicating the thing watched, listened to, etc. Also transitive and (occasionally) transitive (reflexive). Cf. binge-read v., binge-view v., binge-watch v. 1977 I remember bingeing on television when I was a child and having that vapid feeling after watching hours of TV. in M. Winn, Plug-in Drug iii. 22Citation details for in M. Winn, Plug-in Drug 1991 People who binge on movies, constantly change television channels, crave chocolate, act the seducer or can't stop cutting their hair..illustrate similarities to addictive behavior. Atlanta Journal & Constitution (Nexis) 29 December k8
The Oxford English Dictionary's earliest citation for "binge" in that sense as a verb is from 1977. Your friend may have independently coined the term, of course – that's a very common process in word-formation.
DAWN OF THE DEAD (Anagram-Haiku)
Woodland: The day breaks.
Another dead body walks
and wreaks bloody death.
Is there one object, or type of object, that you don't currently hold at the MERL but would absolutely love to? (Either something that there just aren't any examples of available, or something unique that's in private hands or in another museum).
The sense of "gel" as a shortening of "gelatine" or "jelly" is relatively new (1899, per OED), and when Ngaio Marsh was writing would mostly have been used in scientific contexts. There was no real reason why someone seeing the word "gel", with no context, would assume a soft g pronunciation.
Your earliest example is from June 1856 - there's an earlier instance here from April of the same year. www.virginiachronicle.com?a=d&d=DD1856...
Yeah, Hamlet's really shit, isn't it? That Shakespeare was such a lazy hack.
They absolutely haven't become a massive trend - they're a tiny trend, backed by a small number of (admittedly popular) social media influencers. You should know better than to believe anything the New York Times tells you about British food.
@davidallengreen.bsky.social Have you seen the latest example of, "when your lawyers tell you one thing and ChatGPT tells you another, maybe listen to your lawyers"? fortune.com/2026/03/17/k...
Wait, the Oscar nominated makeup guy who did Del Toro's Frankenstein is the same guy who did Jeremy's disguises on Beadle's about?! 😀
Winner - According to Victoria Wood, whose excuses for not having sex with his wife included, "I pulled a muscle when I did that grouting", "the pipes want lagging", "it's too chilly to go without me thermal vest", and "The only girl I'm mad about is Judith Chalmers"? By Simon Koppel
Congratulations @simonkoppel.bsky.social
Unusual antedating challenge of the day: $500 prize for a pre-1732 English example of "vampire", from @vampirestudies.bsky.social. (Note that OED's entry is unrevised, and we've known about 1732 for some time.)
vampirestudies.org/2026/03/01/5...
** Reposting this story I wrote last year.
#GnuTerryPratchett
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8000 posts and 16 followers? Yeah, I think that's a safe assumption
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Was this recorded for the podcast feed, for those of us several thousand miles from Central Oklahoma?
Prelims close today What is the question if the answer is Barry? The prelims Which question in each group should go forward into the final?
Prelims close today
What is the question if the answer is Barry? The prelims
Which question in each group should go forward into the final? forms.gle/uAWQ1UTJaMiJ...
And of course, the equally important lesson that while all people are different, all people are people and are each uniquely valuable. However hard you try, you'll never have two hearts or be able to inhabit a falcon - that doesn't make you less important than The Doctor or Granny Weatherwax.
Well done. But please don't assume that what's possible for you must therefore be possible for other people as well. Your timeline tells me you're a Pratchett, Douglas Adams, Doctor Who fan, and yet you haven't learnt from them the important lesson that Other People Are Different From You?
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Do you have an alert set up for any time someone mentions orange cones?!