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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 26m

Nothing to worry about. All ingredients were reasonable and fully tested. Dr Hollyard was an expert, you know...

Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 33m

Apparently, by bypassing the liver, alcohol taken this way can increase one’s intoxication considerably. I’m not recommending this as a course of action, you understand. These are simply facts. Do with them as you will

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 35m

I know you’ve all been on tenterhooks, so: happy 362nd anniversary to this entry from the Diary of Samuel Pepys, in which he is administered a ‘clyster’, or... to deploy the correct medical terminology, gets his wife to shove a pint of beer up his arse

...beginning to be very well, and yet when I came home⁠ ⁠… the little straining which I thought was no strain at all at the present did by and by bring me some pain for a good while. Anon, about 8 o’clock, my wife did give me a clyster which Mr. Hollyard directed, viz., a pint of strong ale, 4 oz. of sugar, and 2 oz. of butter. It lay while I lay upon the bed above an hour, if not two, and then thinking it quite lost I rose, and by and by it began with my walking to work, and gave me three or four most excellent stools and carried away wind, put me in excellent ease, and taking my usual walnut quantity of electuary at my going into bed I had about two stools in the night.⁠ ⁠…

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 1h

Excellent! Delighted to have been preempted

Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 2h

Logical next stage

Meme: a pantomime animal dancing on a beach with the caption “NO TIME TO EXPLAIN. GET IN THE LLAMA”

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 15h

Yeah, that’s bloody rubbish news

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 15h

Unsolicited Philip K Dick pic

A copy of DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? by Philip K. Dick

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 15h

In the words of Kate Garraway, that is flabbergasting #Strictly

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 16h

That’s certainly the impression I’m getting from my (very amusing) timeline

Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 17h

That’s a lovely bit of writing. (I loved the film the first time I saw it, but I completely understood what you meant)

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 18h

Haha!

jerry from tom and jerry is wearing a tuxedo and standing on a stage

Alt: jerry from tom and jerry is wearing a tuxedo and bowing on a stage

media.tenor.com

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 22h

So, if it’s 11 October, it must be time to ~ahem~ ‘celebrate’ the 362nd anniversary of this entry from the Diary of Samuel Pepys, in which... well, you probably get the idea by now

11th
I after the old passe, all the day within doors,⁠ ⁠… the effect of my electuary last night, and the greatest of my pain I find to come by my straining.⁠ ⁠… For all this I eat with a very good stomach, and as much as I use to do, and so I did this noon, and stayed at home discoursing and doing things in my chamber

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 20h

Thank you for saying so. Glad you liked it

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 20h

Thank you

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 20h

I’ve also been intrigued to try crème de menthe since I first heard this about 40 years ago, but never tried it

Billy Connolly ~ Two Scotsmen in Rome

YouTube video by TheonlyComedian

youtu.be

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 21h

Yes, I’d be intrigued to go and peer at him myself (although not at this point in that country’s history)

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 21h

I hadn’t thought of that, but yes, I think it should be adopted widely

Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 22h

Oh, he was a dreadful prick, and in many ways, too

The Confessions of Samuel Pepys by Guy de la Bédoyère review – journal of a predator

Newly decoded extracts expose the celebrated 17th-century diarist and naval administrator as a rapacious abuser

www.theguardian.com

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 22h

(An ‘electuary’ is a “medicinal conserve or paste, consisting of a powder or other ingredient mixed with honey, preserve, or syrup of some kind”, according to the Oxford English Dictionary)

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 22h

So, if it’s 11 October, it must be time to ~ahem~ ‘celebrate’ the 362nd anniversary of this entry from the Diary of Samuel Pepys, in which... well, you probably get the idea by now

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 22h

That has properly made me laugh

Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 22h

Yes, a fascinating figure, but I can’t help thinking the world would have been a happier place if he’d been more straightforwardly ridiculous

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 23h

Oh, yes! I've done him, too... (further down this thread)

Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · Sep 10

Today, the anniversaries of 2½ deaths. The first wasn’t supposed to happen, because Henry II, Count of Champagne and King of Jerusalem, was only 31, but on this day in 1197 he had a slight mishap with a window...

Excerpt from Steven Runciman’s A History of the Crusades, Volume Three: On 10 September 1197 his troops assembled in the palace courtyard; and Henry reviewed them from the window of an upper gallery. At that moment envoys from the Pisan colony entered the room. Henry turned to greet them, then, forgetting where he was, stepped backward through the open window. His little dwarf, Scarlet, was standing by him and grabbed at his clothes. But Henry was a heavy man and Scarlet very light. They crashed together on to the pavement below and were killed."

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 23h

And that’s not even the end of pope-related weird news today, because it’s also the 37th anniversary of Ian Paisley denouncing John Paul II as the Antichrist in the European Parliament and being ejected by a Habsburg crown prince who is alleged to have punched him...

Odd this day

11 October 1988

mulberryhall.medium.com

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 23h

Thank you! I mean, pretty disgusting, too, but thank you

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