. Volunteers had no recognised existence in England until May, 1859. — The Nelson Evening Mail, September 8 1908 . Everyone in Joe Orton’s social circle was called Kenneth. The word ‘truth’ has no exact equivalent in Welsh. The 8-hour workday doesn’t make sense. Sloths take five seconds to have sex, but a month to digest a […]
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Tagged agave, air travel, America, anatomy, education, England, food, furniture, Gerry Adams, Ireland, Joe Orton, Johnny Vaughan, Kenneth Cranham, Nelson Evening Mail, politics, religion, royalty, sex, Sinn Fein, sloths, snooker, tap-dancing, The Evening Standard, the Isle of Man, Truth, Welsh, work
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Dear Amorist, I recently made a joke about my pregnant wife – and found myself receiving several pointers. ‘Have lots of sex before the baby’s born,’ said one. ‘Watch loads of movies,’ said another. Couldn’t we just watch porn, and kill two birds with one stone? Yours, &c. ASH Smyth, by email
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Tagged advice, babies, birds, film, letters, pornography, pregnancy, sex, The Amorist, women
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. Few of those who know and admire the camellia, that waxlike and pure flower, are aware that the parent plant, the origin of the million plants scattered throughout Europe, is still alive and is in Italy. — The Nelson Evening Mail, January 22 1907 . The Taliban now control more territory in Afghanistan than they did […]
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Tagged Afghanistan, Alex Haley, Americans, castanets, D-Day, dancing, death, fishing, flora, France, genealogy, hats, history, Icelandic, Ireland, Italy, Khmer, Lakshman Joseph de Saram, linguistics, Miles Davis, musicians, Nelson Evening Mail, ostriches, phones, Playboy, politics, race, religion, royalty, shit, Sri Lanka, the Taliban, Theresa May, Vikings, violin, vomit, war, woodpeckers
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Monday, September 25, 2017
. The province of Quebec has a wooden railway 20 miles in length. The rails are of maple. This railway is used for hauling timber. — The Nelson Evening Mail, November 1 1906 . The German word for ‘train’ is ‘Schienengefuhrtes Sonderzug mit feststehender Lokomotive’. Bathtime is a good time for kicking. Margaret Atwood’s real name is […]
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, bathing, Canaan Banana, Canada, Catherine Parr, cricket, dogs, e-mail, finance, German, health, Helpful Books, Henry VIII, humanity, Juliet Stevenson, Marais Erasmus, Margaret Atwood, Methodism, music, Nelson Evening Mail, nomenclature, officialdom, Poetry, politics, rabbits, religion, Scandinavia, tequila, Thomas Tallis, trains, trees, Virginia Military Institute, war, Yakult
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Tuesday, September 19, 2017
The Prayer Book Society helps trainee priests with the ‘Shakespearey’ language. — For The Oldie
Monday, September 18, 2017
. Our Eastern allies have just spent £2,000,000 in equipping a Government steel works. — The Nelson Evening Mail, September 8 1908 . Ben Stokes is the sixth Englishman to have his name on the honours boards at Lord’s for both batting and bowling. The smell of hot food is not very common on building sites. Annalise was […]
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Tagged Afrikaners, America, Anne Watson, arachnids, Australians, Ben Stokes, Benjamin Britten, Brexit, cricket, death, drink, finance, food, government, hair, Iceland, Leonard Bernstein, life, London, Lord's, manufacturing, Neighbours, Nelson Evening Mail, opera, penises, Peter Grimes, Reading, Sebastian Faulks, South Africa, steel, the Bible, the Chinese, the EU, the Irish, the NHS, the Nile, train-travel, TV, work
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Thursday, September 14, 2017
To Daunt’s in Marylebone, last night, where former pretty-boy and nightclub bouncer (and Amorist ‘Fiascos’ columnist) Anthony McGowan launched his latest literary venture, The Art of Failing. Subtitled Notes from the Underdog, the book chronicles a year in the life of West Hampstead’s shambolic would-be flâneur, by way of library mishaps, bad packed lunches, and […]
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Tagged Anthony McGowan, bookshops, Charlie Campbell, cricket, Daunt, drink, Facebook, health, London, love, Oneworld Publications, parties, publishing, Sebastian Faulks, sex, Stewart Lee, The Amorist, Tom Holland, West Hampstead, wives
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Wednesday, September 13, 2017
The HAC/Royal Artillery Communicator Course (2/11 – condensed) experienced something of a ‘cold start’ when several of the intake missed the first drill night following a break-down in, er, communications. But the troops rallied manfully, and by the first weekend of December, at Crowborough Camp and under the leadership of CSgt Booth and LCpl Magee […]
Monday, September 11, 2017
. Miss Mary Elsen, of Chicago, is suing Dr. Charles Weser, a local doctor, for 60 breaches of promise during a four years’ courtship. — The Nelson Evening Mail, June 22 1912 . Soldiers are quite fond of children. Chopsticks are the reason the Chinese never invented custard. The senior members of the House of Commons are not […]
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Tagged actors, Americans, army, Belgium, chickens, clothing, custard, dairy, Elton Jantjies, Epicurus, fleas, French, hair care, Karl Marx, Nelson Evening Mail, Penge East, politics, religion, Richard E Grant, romance, rugby, sex, shopping, South Africans, statuary, the Chinese, The Erotic Review, Tiberias, vanity, women
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Friday, September 8, 2017
Pissing Figures: 1280–2014 by Jean-Claude Lebensztejn (transl. Jeff Nagy) David Zwirner Books, 168pp, £11.95 . From a Cimabue cherub to Szydlowski/-lowska’s Lenin, simply everyone is pissing. In pen and ink, paint on canvas, plaster, wood, stone, polymer, block prints, engraving, chamber pots, aquatints, dishware, film, manuscripts, inlay, public statuary, trick-photography, and in a Japanese video […]
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Tagged Abraham Bosse, Andrew Lincoln, art, Bartosz Szydlowski, books, Christ, Cimabue, criticism, Cupid, David Zwirner Books, history, Japan, Jean-Claude Lebensztejn, Jeff Nagy, Jeffrey Lebowski, Lenin, Malgorzata Szydlowska, Mars, Michelangelo, Paula Radcliffe, sex, Snow White, The Amorist, the French, Titian, urine
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