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Our Founder

Douglas Noel Adams
1952 - 2001
'Not sleeping, just dead'

1 x 47 - 2 - 0 - 3 = 42

Some words on events in the Middle East

From Robert Bolt's play A Man For All Seasons (the story of the conflict between Sir Thomas More and King Henry VIII during the period that the king was seceding from Rome and forming the Church of England), written in the 1950s:

Alice While you talk, he is gone
More And go he should, if he was the Devil himself, until he broke the law
Roper So now you'd give the Devil the benefit of law!
More Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get to the Devil?
Roper I'd cut down every law in England to do that!
More Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat. This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast - man's laws, not God's - and if you cut them down - and you're just the man to do it - do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of the law, for my own safety's sake

"If there was no threat from Iraq we obviously had no right to carry out a pre-emptive strike to remove that threat. And we better drop that doctrine before somebody else in the world uses it in their own back yard."
BBC News, 24 January, 2004

Is this where George W. Bush got his foreign policy from... a song written more than 30 years ago? Or was Randy Newman being unbelievably prescient?

For I am a Rain Dog too

A Rain Dog is... you notice it more in lower Manhattan than anywhere else - after a rain in New York all the dogs that got caught in the rain, somehow the water washed away their whole trail and they can't get back home so about four in the morning you see all these stranded dogs on the street and they're looking around like, 'Won't you help me get back home, sir, please? Excuse me sir, excuse me sir, can you help me find my way back home?'... all makes and models - the short ones, the black ones, the tall ones, the expensive ones, the long ones, the disturbed ones, they all want to get home. So that's a Rain Dog. It's like falling asleep somewhere and you thought you knew where you were and when you woke up - it's like Mission Impossible - they changed the furniture and the walls and windows and the sky turned a different colour and you can never get back.
Tom Waits, 1985

For the record

• Male
• British
• 53 years old
• 5'11"/weight unknown but steadily increasing thanks to water, malt, hops and yeast
• Living in Texas
• Inked
• Bartender
• Curmudgeon (sometimes professionally)
• Can't cook, won't cook (except cakes and biscuits, which I enjoy cooking enormously)
• Can drive, won't drive

Let's get one thing straight

'Source' is not a verb, okay?

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Probably the best mission statement in the world... ever:
"Well I think we should all sit down and have a nice cup of tea, and some biscuits, nice ones mind you.
Oh and some cake would be nice as well. Lovely."

Mmmm, nice

Lord Lucan sez buffaloes are ok

"Sex is good, but not as good as fresh, sweet corn."
Garrison Keillor

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Violets are #0000FF
All my base are belong to you

John Peel: 1939-2004
"Teenage dreams, so hard to beat"

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