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Comedy and Leadership - discuss?

How do you define funny? How do you define Peter Cook? Or are the two words synonymous....? It's quite impossible to think of Peter as dead because he's a perpetual spirit -Barry Humphries Cook the insulter - "Perhaps if I had…
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Eurovision from a true visionary

Eurovision - a brilliantly misconceived attempt to bring the peoples of Europe together on the wings of a song. when all it demonstrates, year after year, is how far apart everyone is. Musically, at least Don't worry, this isn't another…
Banjaxed
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Banjaxed - Wogan's favourite word

The great maxim at the BBC is, if it ain't broke, break it Dear old Terry - the man who introduced 'banjaxed' into the English vocabulary (or at least popularised it) - was a wordsmith of heroic proportions, and hence somewhat of a hero of…
The dangers of omitting punctuation
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The Grammarian - text speak and the reluctant comma

"I'll never date an apostrophe....the last one was just too possessive" 3 comma-related reasons to fear the absence of punctuation Writing is a dying art and emails are becoming passé, but text speak is taking over the world. 1.Commas…
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Website tips (part 1) - Avoiding 'visual mishaps'

Strange, but true.... The worst visual mishaps reported to the College of Optometrists in 2014: A man who had such dense cataracts that he ate his hearing aids thinking they were cashew nuts; A pilot who landed a jumbo jet safely in…