Actual things you actually said (or heard) in the last 24 hours

Oh I dunno, you won’t be bored at least…

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“It’s possible, on reflection, that having ping pong balls hurled at them whilst being shouted at in Shakespearean is not for everyone”

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That sounds like an Edinburgh Fringe sort of thing.

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Indeed it is!

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(Thinking someone might be an unwitting alien agent.)

“What is the Sung for ‘stand on your bed and dance like a chicken’?”

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“What if it’s Grover with a flame-thrower?”

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"I put a pen and pad by the bed so that if if an important thought woke me up in the night, I could write it down.

“It happened last night, and this morning I found that I’d written: ‘Do the thing.’.”

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“Zhu Li! Do the thing!”

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“Touch the puppet head “?

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“It’s a normal family tree, right? I mean, not a straight line or a loop?”
“Or a Möbius strip?”

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Back in the early days of Facebook when it was fun (and mostly memes) I joined a group called
“Can this Möbius Strip get more fans than itself?”

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I looked up those lyrics, and I don’t have much idea what that song is about. I see why you referenced it, though! I guess “Put your hand inside the puppet head” means taking control…

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“L likes the tip, but E prefers the… you know what? I’m not sure we can talk about asparagus preferences out loud.”

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OK, I didn’t hear this, but I thought it was rather ridiculous.

How can a toy not be a toy?

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“You can only Boud once.”

(Imperium, after Boudicca goes into hustory.)

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I love this lady. Forgotten by history (at least in US schools) but a superstar of historical board and video games.

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Boud games.

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Certainly when I was at school (UK 1970s-1980s) “doing” the Romans in Britain included Boudicca as standard. At that point many textbooks used the older standard “Boadicea”.

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Makes a lot of sense. I imagine you all are scant on Sacagawea and Molly Pitcher on that side of the pond.

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Forgotten? Really? I mean, I can understand why US schools wouldn’t teach about her, because why would they teach about Roman Britain, I suppose, but we definitely got taught about her at school.

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