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Our alfalfa is alpha
Nothing can beta it
Or even gamma close.
I nearly always have a resident robin, or a pair, in my garden. If I leave the kitchen door open for any extended period one may fly in. Imagine: a very small Dinosaur (for that is what it is) perched on the back of my dining chair. Its legs are thinner than matchsticks, such a small frail organism, but also so clever. It toured the house, upstairs and downstairs, for quite a while, and I just waited for it to find its way back. When it did, and came back to where it entered, l let it out, moving slowly and gently so as not to frighten it.
This is a Sangaku-like puzzle (see https://learn1.open.ac.uk/mod/oublog/viewpost.php?post=230691)
We have a square inscribed in a triangle of known base b and height h, as shown. What is the length s of the square's side?
I called this a Samurai puzzle because many of the original sangaku were the work of Samurai.
(Solution in Comments.)
Why did the brontosaurus cross the road?
Road, what road?
Errm...
A saying for our times
May your mask go with you!
Please always remember, the secret of survival is to embrace change, and to adapt.
Rohinton Mistry, in A fine balance
Q. What do you call two banjos that slobber a lot?
A. Drooling banjos.
Often I think of this -
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.
- which is the first line of Virgil’s poem the Aeneid.
Q. Why is PR inexpensive?
A. Because it's less than half price!
I like to think I'm imaginative, but maybe I'm making it up.
The new doctor asked me if I had a chronic complaint. I was like yes, the decor in the waiting room is awful and nobody ever does anything about it.
I love the evening fen
The birds flying home to roost
And the smell of water mint.
I saw this recently as a blog post title
Marshall Law
If we can have Marshall Law (and they did in Dodge City) then Marshall Arts must follow close behind.
To complete the confusion senior soldiers might be Field Martials.
I was told to be freedom-loving. I was like, whoa! Don't tell me what I should do.
HAY
HAT
BAT
BET
BEE
Apparently someone has set up a floating cannabis farm, in the ocean far from territorial waters. They call themselves Sea Weed.
I have a friend called Pamela, and we collaborate on crosswords quite often. At one time this would be down the pub, with a bit of catch-up online, but now everything is the other way round.
When I got a signed message, 18a noodle, I suddenly remembered that Pamela is a concocted name, invented by Sidney for a work called Arcadia. And this reminded me that Miranda (The Tempest) is also an invented name, and (I thought) Wendy (Peter Pan). But there is doubt about Wendy, and also about Lorna, which I understood originated with Lorna Doone, but may have not done.
After searching I found this article
https://interestingliterature.com/2015/10/10-first-names-that-have-their-origins-in-literature/
and it was interesting.
In the Middle Ages they didn’t have any fridges.
So the rate of food poisoning must have been prodigiese.
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