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Patrick Smith
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Astronomical optics, get 'em while they're cold
You went to a savoury pastry restaurant? #nyt
November 26, 2025 at 1:55 PM
"Stop shouting in Norwegian, I'm trying to let your dog sniff me"
November 26, 2025 at 11:35 AM
hmm looks like they didn't use the monorail for turf

www.ingr.co.uk/vids_dig9.html

Bord na Mona's lines were further north and more conservative in design
November 26, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Europe's turf distribution problems solved at a stroke
November 26, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Nous proposons par dessert: un parfait de caramel et nougat, enveloppé en chocolat et puis batteré et plongé rapidement dans l'huile bouillant
November 26, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Brains was surely in it for the first-wave-of-ska vinyl
November 26, 2025 at 10:35 AM
He's trying to flush John Majors into the open and dispel the rumours
November 26, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Ah now, we can't all be Lamont
November 26, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Yes there's the whole going-nowhere bit with the explosives. I'd agree with that.

Still #1 for me, because of the godlike genius thing
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
How many horses remain awake because of this man?
November 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Yes, that was the big miss for me. You can argue Young Frankenstein over Blazing Saddles or vice versa, but they're Brooks' second and third best
November 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Ha, lists. Everyone complains. Marvellous.

I read through this one and - apart from outrage!!! - there are some agreeable surprises

I don't remember seeing The Heartbreak Kid or Playtime so high on this sort of list
November 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
November 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Just hanging around the snack bar at Hillend nibbling winsomely on a macaroni pie
November 24, 2025 at 12:40 PM
"You know what's remarkable? Is how much the Cairngorms look in no way like the Sierra Nevada."
November 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
...also, "posing as a ski student"? I trust that love blossoms on a rickety T-bar in Glenshee during horizontal sleet
November 24, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The Scottish Crusade is largely forgotten but the Hospitallers' castles are still enigmatic guardians of glen and moor
November 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM