cows – A S H Smyth http://www.ashsmyth.com Will write for money Tue, 23 Jun 2020 10:50:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.4 The Ones That Got Away http://www.ashsmyth.com/the-ones-that-got-away/ http://www.ashsmyth.com/the-ones-that-got-away/#respond Sun, 14 Jun 2020 10:37:37 +0000 http://www.ashsmyth.com/?p=3011 Introduction to a new column on photographic misfires, beginning with my own amateur misadventures.

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For the Sri Lankan Sunday Times

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In China the dials of a clock turn round instead of the hands.

— The Nelson Evening Mail, September 8 1908
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Benedict Cumberbatch reads Oryx magazine.

A piece of pasta (dry) weighs essentially one gram.

A man can only care about so many things.

Labels are for clothes.

In Bosnian there are no words for fiction and non-fiction.

The eating of grapes has killed several Englishmen by throwing them into fluxes and fevers.

Allah does not like hearing the word ‘Allah’.

The shooting schedules in pornography are quite brisk.

Darryl Gerrity loves people, perhaps too much.

Washing machines live longer with cows on.

It’s all kicking off in Jamestown. 

Russian composer Dmitri Kabalevsky died on this day in 1987.

Two childhood friends in Honolulu have recently found out that they are brothers.
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