Stephanie 1:53 pm, Feb 2nd 2012

To flambé, or not to flambé?

There’s only so long that a person can live off pizza. So I’m learning how to cook.

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(I Can’t Get No Agreement About) Satisfaction

How can ‘satisfactory’ be neither ‘good enough’ nor ‘acceptable’? My dictionary says it’s both.

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In another life

I’m finding that Dickens is much less Dickensian than I’d expected. He, like Shakespeare, refuses to be his own parody.

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Don’t ever wish me a ‘Happy Xmas’

I’m a complete sucker for the whole festive thing. And that’s why I hate a ‘Happy Xmas’.

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The mystery of the morphing words

Halloween is over, so we’ll have to wait another year before we can put bedding over our heads to scare the living daylights out of small children, hide behind the sofa from B-movie slashers, or mutilate unsuspecting jelly babies for gory cake decorations.

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