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I recalled there was a big court battle over this, involving Universal Studios and copyright claims - this is the legal version… https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ca-court-of-appeal/1849267.html

Interesting. One factor here is their milk won’t be homogenised

the alignment of Stonehenge is to be tested against an upcoming rare lunar ‘standstill’ event https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/15/once-in-a-generation-lunar-event-to-shed-light-on-stonehenges-links-to-the-moon

“Only You” - Alison Moyet and Vince Clarke (Yazoo) Covered many times over the 40+ years since it was first released in 1982, and featuring in many movies and TV shows. Most recently it was played at the very end of Love, Victor in 2022 as Victor and Benji finally get back together, despite the song being so melancholy (it’s about regret and sense of loss after the breakup of a relationship - but maybe it was referencing all of that during the series?) This is a remixed version released by Alison Moyet in 1999, when it charted at #2

the monologue in Goldfinger works because it’s delivered so well (dubbed - Gert Fröbe’s English was poor) and is combined with stunning screen visuals (for 60 years ago) all leading up to that brilliant, laconic comedy punchline: Bond: “Do you expect me to talk?” Goldfinger: “No Mr Bond, I expect you to die!” and it could all have ended so differently…

Ron’s Place is ‘listed’ and saved for the nation! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-68731665

there’s no noun that can’t be verbed

A lot of people will become ‘experts’ in bridge design as more horrific details of this terrible tragedy emerge Those interested in this (and understanding the risks to themselves and family using old bridges - still statistically very low), might wish to read the initial thoughts of some actual experts - structural engineers: https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-baltimore-bridge-collapse/#:~:text=Bridges are not designed to,container ship is significantly larger.

maybe you missed these bits the best bit being when mom comes home early, just when they’re, er, coming together, so to speak

Have you browsed the categories + searchable tags in the Stories tab for ‘magic’ and other story aspects?

in 1995 Kermit the frog launched his own perfumed cologne, Amphibia, “Pour homme, femme, et frog” Miss Piggy, consumed with rage and jealousy, launched her own exclusive line of must-have beauty products, Moi, in 1998

I might have shared some snowdrops, but I think they’ve all drowned

believe what your heart prefers you to believe

some creatures just look like a mishmash of body parts

I messed up editing my post, mistakenly creating this new post instead which I can’t delete So here’s a bonus post - a fascinating and weirdly beautiful version of Prelude #1in C major from Book 1 of JS Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier Bach is famous not just for his music, but also his compositional technique, reversing + inverting phrases throughout many of his works. This is an entire piece (the prelude) that’s been ‘inverted’ by American composer, Andrey Stolyarov. Although turning the music ‘upside down’ keeps the same rhythm, it changes the key from C major into a diminished minor and creates something very surprising, completely different in sound, mysterious and wonderful. You’ll want to play it again!

TV companies sometimes commission surprisingly good quality original compositions for their shows. This is Jim Parker’s Agnus Dei, a short but beautiful piece written for the second episode of ITV’s popular police detective series Midsomer Murders, Death Of A Hollow Man, first shown in 1998 Edit: silly zombie - Agnus not Angus!

ditto

Just skimmed this story + comments on my iPad and not an ad in sight. Zero, zilch nada Maybe an issue with your device / browser / settings? iPad 6, iOS 16.6, Safari

Aww, sweet. The favourite gay trope - a chance meeting… And Matt was super cute 💕

I have no experience of drug use so I cannot begin to understand what you and your body are going through, but know that others on this site care about you and your daily ordeal with drugs. Please keep us updated.

interesting 2018 paper on the chaotic orbit of this ‘sometime minimoon’ https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/473/3/2939/4265379#

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Surely that’s the nub of this lively discussion and it applies equally to use of the vernacular Barry Hines’s novel, A Kestrel For A Knave, simply would not have worked had it been written in ‘standard English’. He just had to write the dialogue in the dialect of those working class Barnsley mining communities in order to bring to life, on the page, the characters and their living conditions. The book sold well internationally, and I doubt most Americans would have difficulty understanding passages like this: “Billy lay with his back to him, listening. Then he turned his cheek slightly from the pillow. 'Jud?' 'What?' 'Tha'd better get up.' No answer. 'Alarm's gone off tha knows.' 'Think I don't know?' He pulled the blankets tighter and drilled his head into the pillow. They both lay still. 'Jud?' 'What?' 'Tha'll be late.' 'O, shut it.' 'Clock's not fast tha knows.' 'I said SHUT IT.' He swung his fists under the blankets and thumped Billy in the kidneys. 'Gi'o'er! That hurts!' 'Well shut it then.' 'I'll tell my mam on thi.' Jud swung again. Billy scuffled away to the cold at the edge of the bed, sobbing.” Poor Billy. It’s a hard story of a hard life For the same reason, Irvine Welsh wrote most of Trainspotting in the Scottish dialect ‘Scots’ (more than half the chapters are completely in Scots, and 17 are a mix of English and Scots) that outside Scotland can be challenging, but it’s sold more than 1m within the UK and in other countries: "Ah'll huv tae stoap sayin' 'ken' sae much. These dudes might think ah'm a sortay pleb." "The lager's loupin. Seems tae huv gone dead flat, ken. Tastes like fuckin pish." "zit-encrusted squeaky-voiced wankers playing oot a miserable pretension tae the arts" I’m sure there are plenty of examples of state-based American fiction which might be challenging in other states, never mind internationally, but they still sell.

I was never into Playboy too much writing and not enough boys