To Sherlock Holmes she is always *the* Manto
07.03.2026 15:09
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To Sherlock Holmes she is always *the* Manto
Enjoying the French pundit's giant yellow clown gloves #therugby
It's a shibboleth in Ireland
Careful now
St Etienne, Bob and Sarah in dark grey, Pete in brown, yellow-orange background
Frankie Howerd in brown, Wendy Richard and Paul McCartney in black, yellow background
Every time I see that picture
Do you want San Gimignano? Because this is how you get San Gimignano
BTW for anyone about to pick me up on terminology I would encourage them to RTFA
www.amusingplanet.com/2017/10/irel...
Ireland has famine follies - excuses to pay people for busy work
On a grander scale the Hoover Dam is also sort of this
The Ones Who Request Evacuation From Omelas Because No One Told Them It Was In A Warzone
Fun fact: Gert Neumann is older than Gert Altmann
Alle Menschen werden Nütter
The Red Turtle. This film will emotionally wring you out like a wet flannel
The ones who run away from omalos
40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Hale & Pace host Saturday Live, featuring early Stavros, SNL's A Whitney Brown, Jeremy Hardy, the Dangerous Brothers in a torture chamber and our hosts singing See You Later Alligator with Madness in front of inflatable elephants. www.youtube.com/watc...
The extinction event at the 70s/80s boundary ended this bizarre profusion and left only the dominant forms we see today
Spare a thought for how foolish Gianni Infantino feels today
As someone who's more familiar with Radio 5Live than Canadian politics, this fairly startled me for a sec
Herge art from Tintin: The Crab with the Golden Claws. A group of Arabs get up from some sand dunes and run away.
There are many ways to suggest motion in comics. A subtle one is to place a group of figures that resemble each other in a left-to-right pattern, each showing a progression of movement.
Hergé has a group of Arabs getting up and retreating, but the reader unconsciously sees it as a single figure. 🧵
Gary Cooper looking confident in High Noon (1952)
"I'm wearing my wife's knickers"
They'll shut down all of the smaller lines
It is! I knew something was nagging me. And the font is specifically Windows 10 BSoD
Possibly a Freudian slip from a former software engineer
As for the content, it's a bold strategy Cotton. She's the embodiment of John Major's maxim that "when your back's against the wall, you turn round and fight"
White text on royal blue?
I did once code up a user interface that Logica had specified, so that may be her training coming out
Fesshole OP: at long last I have created the murder government from classic novel Don't Create the Murder Government
It's nice they all look so down to earth and normal in civvies, except Farnaby
Lincoln Jopp is surely an artisan cheese
I think we all read this in a raspy Bavarian accent
"Thanks, I work out" (difficult maths problems on my calculighter)
A Bloom County strip featuring the Banana Jr personal computer. The Banana Jr achieves sentience and walks purposefully off until its plug is pulled from the socket and it falls down dead