Thane of Cawdor

Maybe give these puns a rest faraday or two!

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A very long time since my Steinbeck phase but I think I recall one comic moment. Young brother Joad takes the family cow to be serviced by a neighbour's bull. Watching the action with the neighbour's daughter, the young lad says wistfully, "I wish I was doing that" to which the smartarse girl replies, "Why not? It's your cow." Also ends on a bizarre, but upbeat, note when the previously self-obsessed daughter breast-feeds a starving man.

Has the bottom fallen out of your world? Drink Newcastle Brown Ale and the world will fall out of your... Deputy Speaker Eleanor Laing.

Wordle 334 6/6 Wasn't a 'Phew' at all. It was carefully crafted, incremental gains.

That's why the boy didn't take the shot on with his left foot.

He'll need to clarify it's the Ivory Coast or his windows will suffer.

Had a look at his Wikipedia entry. Now looking for bleach for brain and eyes. Who knew that such creatures roamed the Earth?

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Was it this c**t?

Well...one out of twenty-odd, maybe.

The (innocent until proven) guilty party took part in the debate on the Queen's Speech earlier today. Tory Whips and Met not doing it right.

First time I've seen this version of the story. Good-natured Rangers fans (oxymoron) in joyful mood brutalised by Franco's panic-stricken stormtroopers. Rangers were given a two-year European ban – later reduced to one year – because of their fans’ behaviour. Was it deserved? Well, there was certainly some drunkenness but when we arrived the atmosphere in the city had been a happy carnival one. And there were no pitched battles with rival fans because there were none there to fight with. It was the sudden, panic-stricken actions of the police that was the main cause of the battle and that certainly did not justify a ban that meant Rangers could not defend the trophy they had played their hearts out to win. https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2022/may/15/camp-nou-glory-remembering-rangers-1972-european-triumph

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Multi-national law firm founder, B.S. Womble. If you're looking for a man of integrity and gravitas to manage your complex legal issues, look no further. Womble Carlyle's history dates back to 1876 and was named after its early partners including B.S. Womble and Irving E. Carlyle

Celebrity endorsement. He wanders over to look out of the window at his massive garden. My chance to lob another grenade. “Look at this place. You’re a champagne socialist!” He shifts uncomfortably, hopping from one foot to the other – although he might just need the toilet. “I prefer to think of myself as a Tennent’s Trotsky,” he grins, batting away my metaphorical grenade with a metaphorical badminton racket. It is a lame joke, unfunny and weak, and clearly designed to deflect. https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/may/14/alan-partridge-interviews-steve-coogan

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Prurience and schadenfreude are two of humanity's ignoble traits (albeit often quite funny). I hope Peter Andre sues Vardy over comments that have diminished his reputation.

In fairness, Westminster is where this constitutional issue will be addressed and, possibly, resolved. Quite rational for the big guns to be firing from London rather than Belfast. I don't get the supposed equivalence between shutting down Stormont as a result of Unionist hostility to an Irish Language Act, and shutting down Stormont in protest against the inevitable sea border resulting from the contradictions between the Good Friday Agreement and a hard Brexit policy. Resolution of the former issue was in the gift of the Northern Ireland Assembly; resolution of the latter issue seems to be beyond the wisdom of Solomon. Speaking of big guns, and on an utterly trivial note, I previously thought of Jeffrey Donaldson as a fairly tall man, but he now appears to be of a similar height to Robin Swann. Is he being physically ground down by the pressures of his job(s)?

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