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Author: Richard Carter

A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.

The :-

Whatever happened to the :- punctuation mark?

Published 13-Jan-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: punctuation

Tomorrow's headlines today

Leo Sayer quits Big Brother house.

Published 12-Jan-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: tv

Carolyn's joke

On which side of his house did Jack plant his beanstalk?

Published 11-Jan-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: carolyn, jokes

Joke heard on a podcast yesterday

What do you call an exploding monkey?

Published 09-Jan-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: jokes

Hammer and tongs

Fnaar-fnaar moment at work this morning.

Published 08-Jan-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: cats, misunderstandings

Overheard conversation

Keeping fit in front of the telly.

Published 08-Jan-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: conversations, overheard

Correlation v Causation

An interesting example re. organic food.

Published 07-Jan-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: correlation v causation, food, statistics, vegetarianism

Gone to the Great Spaghetti Monster in the sky

Inventor of instant noodles dies.

Published 06-Jan-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: puns

Those pesky Iranians!

Iranians 'up to no good' in Iraq.

Published 06-Jan-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: iraq

Minority Report

Europe's largest minority gaining recognition.

Published 05-Jan-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: diversity

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On the Moor

On the Moor: Science, History and Nature on a Country Walk
“…wonderfully droll, witty and entertaining… At their best Carter’s moorland walks and his meandering intellectual talk are part of a single, deeply coherent enterprise: a restless inquiry into the meaning of place and the nature of self.”
—Mark Cocker, author and naturalist
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