February 2012
102 posts
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Watching a quiz show
Presenter: So, the topic is rugby. Do you keep up with rugby?
Contestent: Well, I've been in a room when it's been on the television...
Little, Brown to publish J.K. Rowling's first... →
Little, Brown will publish the first novel for adults by J.K. Rowling. The title, the date for the worldwide publication and further details about the novel will be announced later in the year. The novel will be published in both print and e-book format. “Although I’ve enjoyed writing it every bit as much, my next book will be very different to the Harry Potter series.” - J.K. Rowling The...
Jon Richardson: You should really write porn.
Paul Merton: Too busy living it, mate.
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Queen's Corgis and Dorgis
The Queen’s four Corgis are called Linnet, Monty, Holly and Willow. She also has four Dorgis (a Corgi/Daschund cross) called Cider, Berry, Candy and Vulcan.
“For all our serious side, the British have always been rather good at fun.”
– Richard Hammond
We can none of us ever be perfect, but we can try...
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I think it's somewhere in Argentina or something,...
EDIT: I have to go out, so I checked where I was. It was Romania. So I was a bit wrong.
“They’ve promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that...”
– Oscar Wilde (via sjora)
Two kids in the shop yesterday were chasing each...
That moment when you finish a book, look around, and realize that everyone is just carrying on with their lives as though you didn’t just experience emotional trauma at the hands of a paperback.
Graham Norton: I was in a play once and Judi Dench had to shout at me because I was so shit.
Judi Dench: That's true!
Sue Perkins: What did he do?
Judi Dench: Not much.
Sue Perkins: What was required of him?
Judi Dench: Quite a lot.
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Six Unexpected Downsides of the Switch to E-books
1. You can’t hide a gun in a Kindle.
2. You can’t prop up a wonky table or chair with an ebook.
3. No more flipbooks or moustaches in textbooks.
4. Book burnings will have less visual impact.
5. You can’t separate bathroom books from outside books.
And most importantly of all:
6. How will people open secret passages?
The Bookworm Questionnaire
1. What book are you reading right now?
Nick Harkaway’s “The Gone-Away World”.
2. What will you read next?
Either some Agatha Christie or the next Jasper Fforde
3. What was your favorite childhood book?
The Mr Men, of course, and “Who Said Sue Said Whoo?”
4. What were your reading habits like as a kid?
If it had words, I had a read.
5. How many...
morsemordre:
How embarrassing when the ‘Mr Men’ series is higher up than the ‘Twilight Saga’ on the best selling books list.
Fuck is this shit? That’s not embarrassing, that’s both excellent and logical. There are over eighty Mr Men books and four Twilight books. Mr Men have been around for forty years and one is sold every two minutes. Of course they’re higher up.
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Twenty million volumes worth of information is...
The brain is a very big place in a very small space.
“Why bother still having a civilization when we are no longer interested in being...”
