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Author: Richard Carter

A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.

The Man with the Golden Pun

Bloke inhails gold paint.

Published 24-Jul-2005
Filed under: Nonsense

As easy as pi

Richard fails to explain the significance of pi.

Published 22-Jul-2005
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: conversations, mathematics, science

Pretentious

Conversation with Jen twenty minutes into the film Layer Cake.

Published 22-Jul-2005
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: films, movies

No shit? You really don't say!

Prayer no aid to heart patients shock.

Published 18-Jul-2005
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: crap science

Of or pertaining to the rhinoceros

The adjectival form of the word 'rhinoceros'.

Published 18-Jul-2005
Filed under: Nonsense

Jack Nicklaus bows out

The greatest golfer in the history of the game played his last round at the Open.

Published 17-Jul-2005
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: golf

Everybody say Aaah!

Bunnies!

Published 17-Jul-2005
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: stig

Third time lucky?

Two ex-PMs dead this year… When Maggie?

Published 17-Jul-2005
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: politics

Institutionalised homophobia?

New anti-terror measures outlaw camp recruits.

Published 16-Jul-2005
Filed under: Nonsense

Carolynism

Overheard by my spies at Carolyn's house.

Published 13-Jul-2005
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: carolyn

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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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