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As soon as I arose from sleep and climbed dowstairs I was asked

Washing day for bedding. Continue? The system is very sensitive and would not like

To interfere in any way. Yes I said, and immediately four small drones brought

My magic bedding billowing with majesty down the stairs, round two

Bends and straight into the laundry room. There intelligent and connected devices

Were primed and waiting. After the laundry room team

Washer; Dryer; Ironer; had fulfilled their sequential tasks

The four drones were alerted and carried the bedding back up to where

Bedmaker was expecting it.

Inspired by the excellent Numberphile's YouTube video Illegal Numbers, here is an algorithm that at some point arguably infringes every copyright that has been, is, and ever can be.

set n to 0

repeat forever 

    output n

    increase n by 1

Since any text can be represented in numerical form, this algorithm must eventually output the numerical equivalent of every piece of text that isn’t infinitely long.

We all know the sayings: "Red sky at night, shepherd's delight" and "Red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning".

Here's another piece of folk wisdom I picked up recently: "Red sky in the middle of the night, haystack's alight."

It was an awful time.

We were besieged in our city and prayed every day that the relief force would free us.

The relief force was close at hand. They released a pigeon with a message telling us they would arrive imminently.

Ironically as the bird neared the city a defender fired an arrow with a message asking the relief force to come at once.

The arrow shot the pigeon down so both crashed to earth and neither message was delivered. But no-one noticed this breakdown in communications.

From today 20/05/2019 the kilogram has a new definition, in terms of fundamental constants of the universe.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilogram

All the platinum alloy standard kilograms scattered across the globe can now take a well-earned rest.

A proverb is a wise saying passed down by oral tradition. I was forced to learn scores of them in my earliest schooldays. Some examples

Too many cooks spoil the broth

A stitch in time saves nine

Many hands make light work 

Least said soonest mended

I feel that now I need to push back. Here is my first antiverb, which I hope offers no advice but makes up for that in interest.

Uncle Jake was a rat-arsed pirate at the beginning of the universe.

Stupidity departed for a while,

But then it came back with a smile.

Attributed to Alexader Pope (1688 – 1744)