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Our Founder Douglas Noel Adams
1952 - 2001
'Not sleeping, just dead'
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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
And from former British foreign secretary, the late Robin Cook:
"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?
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
- 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
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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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John Peel: 1939-2004
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Leastways, I can't think of any other reason for it. We sold more pints of Guinness this afternoon than any other draft. More than Shiner Bock, more than Shiner Holiday Cheer, more than Live Oak Hefeweissen, more than Dos Equis, more than Real Ale Fireman's #4. I can only deduce that everyone must have tweeted each other and said 'Let's drink Guinness!!!'
And that's not including the three Black and Tans that were on one ticket.
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Well I've loved a million women in a belladonic haze
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Oh, wait, no I haven't. A hundred would have been nice though.
Ever wondered how many times you've done something?
How many pints have I drunk? How many times have I made toast? How many newspapers did I push through how many letterboxes when I was a paperboy? How many times have I had fish and chips? How many times have I done the washing up? How many times have I watched Morecambe and Wise? How many miles have I driven, precisely? How many shirts have I bought? How many times did I ride to school? How many times have I listened to Rattus Norvegicus? How many electricity bills have I paid? How many cheques have I written? How many times have I been on a train? How many books have I got rid of that I wish I hadn't? (too many). How many times have I seen XTC? How many times did I listen to John Peel? (not enough). How many times have I kicked myself for not getting to the Mayflower Club early enough to see Joy Division that time in 1979? (every damn day). How many potatoes have I peeled? How many different places have I lived? (I could probably work that one out... 24, I think, only counting places where I've had a postal address). How many times have I finished The Times crossword (none). How many times have I finished The Independent crossword (one). How many times did I take a maths lesson with Mr Parry? How many times have I read Lord of the Rings? How many cases of beer have I picked up off the floor and loaded into the beer cage at work? How many times have I heard the pips?
These are the things that keep me awake at night, along with the dumpsters being emptied at 3am, neighbours coming home drunk, the dawn chorus, the increasingly frequent need to go to the khazi in the middle of the night, theunderstorms etc.
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Ooh! Am I in with a chance?
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http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...e-ten-best-floor-lamps-1847136.html
Number 4 and number 7 are, to quote DNA, the products of a deranged imagination, especially looking at the price of number 7  'More money than sense' are the words that come to mind for that one. Pity, because one of the best beds I ever made was filched from a Roche-Bobois design  When I visited Paris in 1984 I even went to their main showroom to try and find the real thing.
Number 5 is pleasing to the eye, but I think it'd only fit in a 1950s-themed room. I quite like it. Number 9 is an interesting idea but I wouldn't buy it. Far too Stoke Newington.
And then there's number 8. Looks like the sort of thing that some of my, shall we say, less discerning relatives would have bought in the 70s.
When it comes to decor you can't beat a classic
http://www.tiffanystainedglasslamp.com/photos/MFY703.jpg
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The days start getting longer from here  First though, we've got to deal with a bit of wandering noon A3239796
I never used to be aware of it in London but it's noticeable here around the winter solstice. Sunset continues to get earlier for a week or two after the shortest day when logic says that it should start getting later as the days begin to lengthen again. I've never actually tracked the official sunrise and sunset times to see if that's really what's happening.
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