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John Moynes @johnmoynes.bsky.social · 12m

Make Gandalf Grey Again.

John Moynes @johnmoynes.bsky.social · 1h

Toves these days just aren't slithy enough.

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John Moynes @johnmoynes.bsky.social · 2h

If this was a real democracy Kildare County Council would be chaired by a horse.

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John Moynes @johnmoynes.bsky.social · 2h

Refusing to invest all your money in tulip bulbs is actually racist when you think about it.

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John Moynes @johnmoynes.bsky.social · 3h

There's a sign in my gym that says "The only bad workout is one you don't do" and I regularly disprove this thesis.

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John Moynes @johnmoynes.bsky.social · 15h

Every time Dickens wrote a novel his publisher made him remove a character called Jeremy Jeremyjeremy. Nobody knows why.

John Moynes @johnmoynes.bsky.social · 16h

It was the best of QI, it was the worst of QI.

John Moynes @johnmoynes.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah, you're a cartoon dude. You can do one line and riff on it for a book. As a poet I have to write up to a dozen words per page like some kind of nineteenth century Russian serf.

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John Moynes @johnmoynes.bsky.social · 17h

I came to Jonathan Creek very late in the day is also a good way to start a novel if it's about someone reaching a creek.

Davey Jones @daveyjones.bsky.social · 17h

I came to Jonathan Creek very late in the day, because I'd always somehow assumed that it wouldn't be my kind of thing. But it turned out that it couldn't have been more my kind of thing if it had come out of a box of kind-of-things with the word 'MINE' embossed on the lid.

boxdelightspod.bsky.social @boxdelightspod.bsky.social · 3d

And we're off! NEW EPISODE out today. Journalist and author @michaelhogan100.bsky.social talks about the magic of Jonathan Creek and his own crime novel debut, The Dogwalkers' Detective Agency. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j...

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John Moynes @johnmoynes.bsky.social · 17h

Gonna stay out of the pub for the next couple of weeks. Tensions about the presidential election are high and I don't want to witness any more stabbings.

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John Moynes @johnmoynes.bsky.social · 17h

That varies depending on their mortgage.

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John Moynes @johnmoynes.bsky.social · 17h

If they didn't want to be there they shouldn't of stopped breathing.

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John Moynes @johnmoynes.bsky.social · 18h

Thank you. That's large enough for me to resist the temptation.

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John Moynes @johnmoynes.bsky.social · 18h

How many models a side is it?

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John Moynes @johnmoynes.bsky.social · 18h

Imagine saying this with a straight face when you're a Pope.

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 22h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

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