I live in Melbourne, Australia, with my daughter, Harriet[[.]]
I've started these articles:
edit- Zonule of Zinn
- Fossil words
- Dacianos
- Vitriolage and Vitrioleuse
- Quantum mysticism -- about the pseudoscience that Murray Gell-Mann calls quantum flapdoodle.
- New New New New New New New New New New New New New New New New York
- Phallus tree
I did this too:
editSome articles I like:
edit- Brainbow - I'm in awe. These are true-colour images.
- Guild of the Poor Brave Things - oh you poor lame, halt THINGS
- Paul Kammerer - for his seriality theory
- Kolmogorov complexity - may be used as a universal intelligence test
- Roland the Farter - just because I like this phrase: "Unum saltum et siffletum et unum bumbulum"
- Scaphism - horrifying
- Two Cunts in a Kitchen - forgive me, but this is a phrase used by advertising execs
- Onolatry (donkey worship - links to first ever graffito depicting Christ's crucifixion)
- The Wow! Signal
- Morgellons disease - symptoms include growth of red, blue and black fibres from lesions
- a potpourri of popery -- there have been Popes John XIX and XXI, but never a Pope John XX
- Utopia, Ohio, founded by a Christian sect who believed there would come a day when the seas turned to lemonade.
- The Z Machine
- Schmidt Sting Pain Index -- witty, richly nuanced observations on the subtle agonies of insect stings.
My webpage:
editW. Somerset Maugham:
edit"There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
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editOf interest only to me:
editSome useful facts about saints:
editDid you know
edit... that Mammes of Caesarea is said to have been breast-fed by his father?
...that tradition indicates Nicasius of Rheims completed saying his prayer at his execution after he had been beheaded?
...that Justus of Beauvais, a cephalophore saint, is reported to have picked up his head and continued preaching after his beheading?
...that the severed head of St Baudilus bounced three times on the ground, each impact bringing forth a spring of water?
...that shortly after Jonah of Manchuria died in 1925, he is said to have appeared in a dream before a crippled boy saying "Here, take my legs. I don't need them anymore," and the boy woke up completely healed?
...that the spring and village Águas Santas are believed to be named for the spring where Marina of Aguas Santas was beheaded?
...that Amaro spent three hundred years standing at the gate of the Earthly Paradise without being allowed in, according to the Life of Saint Amaro?
...that the cities of Viterbo and Narni fought a two-year battle over where the popular nun Lucia Brocadelli of Narni would reside?
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