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Author: Richard Carter

A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.

Idle thought

I wonder what treatment they offer to people with a morbid fear of hypnotherapy.

Published 10-Dec-2006
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: hypnotism, idle thoughts

I'll get my coat

Euro jackpot lost in player error.

Published 10-Dec-2006
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: carolyn, lottery, randomness

Pretentious? Nous?

Tesco gets ideas above its station.

Published 10-Dec-2006
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: tesco

No Toast

BBC: Chile's Gen Pinochet dies at 91 Good.  • Join Amnesty International

Published 10-Dec-2006
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: amnesty international, human rights

Cheese and wine

More frivolity with Carolyn.

Published 09-Dec-2006
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: carolyn, cheese, conversations, wine

Mannerisms of the glabrous

Don't bald men seem to spend an awful lot of time rubbing their heads?

Published 07-Dec-2006
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: baldness

You are the Weakest Link…

More quiz show idiocy.

Published 06-Dec-2006
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: idiots, tv

Weirdo

Spotted in M&S Manchester.

Published 06-Dec-2006
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: weirdos

Idle thought

Why doesn't 'untoward' mean the same as 'away from'?

Published 05-Dec-2006
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: idle thoughts, words

Drug-testing

Goldie calls for jail drug tests.

Published 03-Dec-2006
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: drugs

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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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