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Karen Carpenter, soft focus, wistful dad staring out of rainy window.
Cut to future WILTY. MW summoning youthful exuberance for the cameras: I used to be… a lumberjack.

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John Dodsworth @johnrdodsworth.bsky.social · Aug 19

It was in the listing. Set it to record. What did they show instead? Some old comedy I expect.

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John Dodsworth @johnrdodsworth.bsky.social · Jul 10

Perhaps we should just start ripping off patents.

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John Dodsworth @johnrdodsworth.bsky.social · Jul 10

No one wants to sound like Liddle.

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John Dodsworth @johnrdodsworth.bsky.social · Jul 3

I follow you, but not at that speed.

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John Dodsworth @johnrdodsworth.bsky.social · Jun 5

Thank you for your attention to this matter!

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John Dodsworth @johnrdodsworth.bsky.social · Jun 3

Usually in blankets.

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John Dodsworth @johnrdodsworth.bsky.social · May 29

Justard dream.

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John Dodsworth @johnrdodsworth.bsky.social · May 13

Public school, not Oxford. At Oxford, I was lightly mocked for my Yorkshire accent. At home, questioned about acquired affectations. My working class farming parents bemused.

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John Dodsworth @johnrdodsworth.bsky.social · Apr 29

I don’t use it as a rule?

John Dodsworth @johnrdodsworth.bsky.social · Apr 7

Oh, they were getting goods for their money?

John Dodsworth @johnrdodsworth.bsky.social · Mar 27

Like Showaddywaddy when punk was the disrupter.

Howard Goodall @howardgoodall.bsky.social · Mar 27

I think what they are is unambiguously <confident> in their nostalgic zest (add Parry's Jerusalem), composed in a period when other, trailblazing composers were ripping up the musical rule-book, often brilliantly, or, in VW's case (Lark Ascending), heartbroken loss for 1914-18 & the world it ended

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John Dodsworth @johnrdodsworth.bsky.social · Mar 18

Arts and Crafts movement again.

John Dodsworth @johnrdodsworth.bsky.social · Mar 14

Or tau day, which is the 62nd August.

John Dodsworth @johnrdodsworth.bsky.social · Feb 27

Wife’s cousin: We used to like watching Winterwatch until that Chris Peckham [sic] went woke.

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John Dodsworth @johnrdodsworth.bsky.social · Feb 17

Wikipedia:

Bunter's defining characteristics are his naive greed, self-indulgence, and overweight appearance. He is in many respects an obnoxious anti-hero. Besides his gluttony, he is obtuse, lazy, racist, nosy, deceitful, pompous, and conceited…"

Do we know anyone like that?

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John Dodsworth @johnrdodsworth.bsky.social · Feb 17

We should start by mistrusting leaders with a “U” in their name:
Musk
Trump
Lukashenko
Putin
Truss
Hunt
Danny Zuko
Bush
Billy Bunter
Hans Gruber
Rubio
Zuckerman

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John Dodsworth @johnrdodsworth.bsky.social · Feb 12

Doing a maths exam in purple ink (I’m colour blind). Bawled at publicly in the hall at break.