Things I learned today (Part 1)

A stooks of what?

A Wooly of stooks? Heā€™d be proud.

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Youā€™re doing the NYT crossword?

Babylon, one of the oldest cities in the world was ripped up and built on by the US and English in the gulf war

I blame David Grey

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Psalm 137 is only one out of 150 psalms in the Bible to be set in a particular time and place.

Sunday Times.
I can never do it. It seems heavily geared towards 60 year old English people.

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Good effort. Hmmm, would ā€œa hapeā€ work here? I like it myself.

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Would you not just say a field of stooks?

Oafs, not oats is the subject weā€™re dealing with currently. I donā€™t quite know how youā€™re still here you thick stook.

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Stook is what stook does.

Iā€™d say thereā€™s a few of your lumpy progeny muttering the same about you

Tsk, tskā€¦

The cake on the front of the Let It Bleed album by The Rolling Stones was cooked by Delia Smith.

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In the Munster semi-final of 1959 Waterford led Tipp by 8-02 to 0-00 at half time.
Final score 9-03 to 3-04. Waterford never feared Munster opposition. *

  • May not be factual.

The Book Depository is an Amazon company. Dooh! itā€™s hard to get away from them.

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In 1895, cars were so scarce that in Ohio, there were only two cars in the entire state. Youā€™d think a crash would have been impossibleā€¦

Not too many roads either Iā€™d say.

We were very disappointed with our second half performance that day letting in three goals against Tipperary really took the gloss of the performance

Barry Gibb wrote ā€œchain reactionā€