Maria Thomas

A NYE appropriate picture too!

The iconic Tulip Stairs located inside the Queen's House in Greenwich, London.

Sam Neill with a great ‘fart story, and Jeff Goldblum with a great ‘fart story’ put-down.

"Books only have two smells. The smell of a new book, which is good, and the smell of an old book, which is even better." - Ray Bradbury 📷 the vintage library on IG

According to Victoria Coren on HIGNFY just now, this story is framed in their shithouse.

17yo son bought this as a birthday gift for the girl he likes. Her favorite Austen novel is Emma, and he wanted to get her something she wasn’t likely to have. This probably did the trick, yeah?

The holy trinity of nuns you shouldn't mess with. (The Nun II is now on Netflix.)

Dad has done the math. 😂

Hoy me he parao a echar una meadilla cerca del bosque de Fargorn camino de Almería y he visto un Ent. Así, con dos cojones.

@NJSimmondsbooks I was 29 stood on Waterloo Bridge with a bottle of champagne waiting for a river of fire that didn’t happen and wondering where I could go to have a wee

The replies in this thread are crazy. I was 21 and drunk, like everyone else I knew. Trafalgar Square was insane so went back home and ended up at our local pub. I don't even remember being worried about the Y2K bug because tech wasn't part of everyday life then 🤷🏻‍♀️

had my kindergarten students mix their own colors with paint and then give the colors a name… the names were cute like “peachy yellow” “turquoise surf” “mega green” but one kid inexplicably named his “format”

@spinubzilla Wait I have something for this

wrote a 20 page sociology research paper in two days in college with the same album on repeat the whole time. still cannot listen to that album to this day

One of my very favourites

Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) wears the same dresses all the way through Breakfast at Tiffany's, simply changing the accessories to give each outfit a different look. Her black shift dress features through the movie at least four times. This signifies that while she wasn't well-off, she was savvy with being stylish, using the little she had to great effect. According to lyricist Johnny Mercer, in a meeting following a San Francisco screening of the movie, a Paramount executive, in reference to “Moon River”, said, “Well, I think the first thing we can do is get rid of that stupid song”. Audrey Hepburn stood up at the table and told him, “Over my dead body!”. The song stayed in the movie, and has since become a classic. Since then, “Moon River” has been recorded more than 500 times.

Happy Birthday to Enya, whose song May It Be became one of the defining pieces of music from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. The song earned an Academy Award nomination, a Golden Globe nomination, and a Grammy nomination, while also winning multiple critics awards after the film’s release. Enya even performed it live at the 74th Academy Awards, one of the rare live performances of her career. Over two decades later, May It Be still feels inseparable from Middle-earth.

The city of tiles, Porto.

ME: fuck, this spreadsheet is going to be unreadable ENENTARZI (Sumerian accountant whose soul is imprisoned in my Excel program): O great scribe, by the blessing of Nadu, perhaps a pivot table? ME: hey thanks man ENENTARZI: Truly this afterlife is a wondrous and blessed one

I would say this is probably the greatest joke ever written for the sheer fact of how many times your Dad or Granddad has said this line when an ambulance or Police car goes by with its sirens on

This is what students at Great Hearts, one of America’s leading classical school networks, are reading this summer. This is what serious education looks like: 6th Grade: - Shane - The Wind in the Willows - Anne of Green Gables - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Shakespeare (A Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night’s Dream) - Johnny Tremain - The Hobbit - “The Most Dangerous Game” - “The Gift of the Magi” - Rudyard Kipling’s “If” - Shakespeare’s sonnets - Emily Dickinson, Frost, Wordsworth, Blake 7th Grade: - The Call of the Wild - A Christmas Carol - Julius Caesar - Tales of the Greek Heroes - Great Expectations - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Fahrenheit 451 - The Count of Monte Cristo - Treasure Island - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Edgar Allan Poe short stories - Milton, Frost, Tennyson, Emerson 8th Grade: - Beowulf - To Kill a Mockingbird - Lord of the Flies - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - The Merchant of Venice - All Quiet on the Western Front - The Good Earth - Watership Down - Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales - Donne, Herbert, Hopkins, Byron, Keats, Whitman, Yeats You can tell what a school believes about children by what it puts in front of them. Some believe children need endless simplification. Others believe they can rise to greatness.

Great ad!