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| 308200. Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:54 am |
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The Future show:
| Quote: | Last year, 75 year old Sigbritt Löthberg hit the headlines when her IT expert son provided her with the world's fastest broadband connection of 40 Gigabytes per second.
These days, she mostly uses the equipment, which gets pretty warm, to dry her laundry.
"We're considering giving her a 100 gigabits per second connection in the summer," added Jonsson. "Then she'll be able to dry all her neighbours' laundry too." |
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| 312187. Mon Apr 07, 2008 4:40 pm |
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For a show featuring feathers:
Sam Goldwyn on Shakespeare:
| Quote: | | Fantastic! And all written with a feather. |
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| 313809. Thu Apr 10, 2008 7:02 am |
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Falling:
A Bosnian man has had his house hit five times by meteorites in less than 6 months. Experts at Belgrade University are checking local magnetic fields to see if there is any anomoly, but the man has a different theory:
| Quote: | | "I am obviously being targeted by extraterrestrials. I don't know what I have done to annoy them but there is no other explanation that makes sense. The chance of being hit by a meteorite is so small that getting hit five times has to be deliberate." |
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2803149.html?menu= |
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| 313825. Thu Apr 10, 2008 7:26 am |
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Fetishes (re-posted)
In January, Ronnie Campbell, MP for Blyth Valley, Northumberland, accidentally gave his support to National Fetish Day.
He promised to wear purple to support a day of awareness, but withdrew his backing after the Sunday Sun explained what "fetish" meant
| Quote: | Mr Campbell revealed he thought “fetish” was just another word for “worry” instead of a description of people who get their kicks in unusual ways.
When we told him, Mr Campbell said: “Oh my God almighty, my God, is that what a fetish is? “I thought a fetish was a worry, like worrying about backing the right horse.” |
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| 313830. Thu Apr 10, 2008 7:27 am |
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Four (reposted post of Mat's)
Marchers taking part in a protest in favour of keeping Radio Four on Long Wave in 1993 used the following chant:
| Quote: | What do we want?
Radio 4!
Where do we want it?
Long Wave!
And what do we say?
Please! |
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| 324394. Fri Apr 25, 2008 6:38 am |
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I'm looking for a wrap-up for the Fight or Flight script and thought this might work:
| Quote: | “The scientific name for an animal that doesn’t either run from or fight its enemies is ‘lunch’”.
Michael Friedman |
but I can't find out anything about Michael Friedman other than that he said that. Anyone know who he is? |
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| 324406. Fri Apr 25, 2008 6:45 am |
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| I wonder if it's the same person as American mystery novelist Mickey Friedman |
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| 324455. Fri Apr 25, 2008 7:28 am |
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| There are a few of them out there, but I can't tell which it is. All the sources credit him as though you'd be sure to know without being told. |
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| 324826. Fri Apr 25, 2008 2:48 pm |
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| I asked Nigel Rees, who replied "I'd guess it was the Michael Friedman who is listed on amazon.com as the author of several tomes on philosophy," and links it to Isaiah Berlin:‘Nature is the place where the birds fly around uncooked.’ |
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| 324896. Fri Apr 25, 2008 4:14 pm |
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| That's good enough for me. The Reesmeister has pronounced. |
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| 325213. Sat Apr 26, 2008 5:13 am |
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Odd coincidence. Michael Friedman is the Frederick P. Rehmus Family Professor of Humanities at Stanford. He's a Brit with a strong logical positivist leaning, which is how I came across him. He's the chief defender of the work of the amusingly named but rarely discussed hardline logical positivist philosopher Rudolf Carnap (1891 - 1970), who I was looking at last week in connection with the Book of the Dead. The category was Esperanto Speakers, a small but interesting bunch, and Carnap was one of the most famous and articulate (allegedly - I have no Esperanto). He also became famous for calling for metaphysics to be excluded from philosophy (buy that man a beer). Anyway, Friedman is the author of the one-stop shop volume The Cambridge Companion to Carnap (2007). A real page-turner, apparently.
The only other contender for your quote, I would think, is Michael Jan Friedman, the hack noveliser of Star trek, Aliens and a host of DC Comics, whose biog on the Simon & Schuster website has a nice line in self-deprecation (and which may furthrt illuminate your problem Flash):
| Quote: | | He continues to advise readers that no matter how many Friedmans they know, the vast probability is that none of them are related to him. |
Mat - hello, by the way - if you are a chum of the Reesmeister, do give him my regards. He may remember me from the old Cassell days when I was his briefly publisher and - I think I'm right in saying - the first man in three decades of blameless quotemastering to throw him a publication party, for The Cassell Book of Humorous Quotations. How the Groucho rocked that night... |
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| 325549. Sat Apr 26, 2008 2:59 pm |
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Message transmitted reeswards, Menocchio.
You know, he'd make a pretty good panellist ... |
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