Miller's constant ranting reminds me of Lucy....

I didn't get the perspective... but it was a joke. Here we have a geothermal power station far from its bores, with loops in the steam pipes like that, to absorb expansion and contraction.

Ah, the joys of voice-to text! Don Lemon said "I don't know who the heir apparent necessarily is." (In royal lineage, the heir apparent is the ruler's child who will succeed to the throne on the ruler's death, like Prince William.)

Why does this happen? The shadow of the side of my head seeming to stretch out to meet the shadow of the window, far behind me. It comes from the interaction between umbra and penumbra, but I can't fathom the details.

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And the artist, Yully Gang, was Ukranian. (I had assumed it was from the same artist as Colonel Blimp, but that was 20 years earlier, and he was New Zealander David Low.)

Then we should be commemorating Spartacus, and these people, who we know are real.

And now her answer is — pray?

Sure, Donald, people will visit Mar-a-lago after you're dead (and may it be soon) — but not the way they visit Graceland, to venerate a great talant. The way they visit Neuschwanstein, to wonder at the mad king who bankrupted his country to fulfil his fantasies, was locked up, and drowned.

Gordon and Denton, Homes of Happiness!

Here is your Bingo card:

Here's your SOTU Bingo card:

What are the chances? Apparently double-yolked eggs are very rare in captivity (these were free range), about 1 in 1000. I found in passing that double-yolkers are safe to eat, more nutritious, but rarely hatch (the embryos compete in the shell).

There used to be a cartoon character called Kokey Koala live.staticflickr.com/100/30413315...

"Aha!" I thought "Dear old Uhu glue!" But look closer, it's a new kind of passing-off, trimming one letter to look like another. UHU is a well-known and trusted brand of glue. The "Unh" glue is satisfactory, though.

Being on the other side of the Pacific, all I could do was make anti-Tr*mp memes, some of which I'm quite proud of.

This enigmatic obelisk is the Wonder Sponge. They claim the fibres are "10,000 times finer than human hair" -but what do they mean by "finer"? I found they are 1/20 of the total volume. Costs $2 but pretty useless. It shrinks, loses shape, stains. Left, 10/9/25; right, 30/11/25.

have just retired as Aotearoa NZ Director of the Darbon Institute, formerly the Australasian Institute for Genital Autonomy, and they have made me an Honorary Life Member. Citation attached.

Haggis is sold in cans in Aotearoa New Zealand. (I had it at breakfast in Inverness, just a variety of sausage meat, lacking the Burns Night rigmarole.) It was the microwave cooking instructions that struck me: "Cover and eat on full power for 4 minutes"

I went in 1991 (when HIV was central to gay thought), dressed as a tube of KY jelly. A radio person thrust a microphone in my face and asked why KY jelly. I said because I expected a lot of people would come dressed as condoms. It was a lot of fun.