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@susie_dent Spare a thought for the signwriter at the Rose & Crown after the publican asked for more space between the Rose & & & & & Crown.

In Old English, the ampersand, '&', was considered the 27th letter of the alphabet. Children reciting the alphabet in school would chant 'per se', Latin for 'by itself', after letters that were words in themselves: 'A per se A, I per se I', etc, and also '& per se &'. This 'and per se and' eventually became mangled to 'ampersand'. The symbol & was Roman shorthand for 'et', 'and'.

@MarkSzakonyi @LogTechEric If you love someone, set them free. If they come back, they're yours. If they don't, lawyer up and sue the bastards.

@LogTechEric Disagree. No better way to keep the serfs on the lord's estate.

Non-competes are a sign of weakness, agree or disagree?

@LogTechEric Show me the social media influencer prepared to sit through a three-hour local council meeting on a wet Tuesday evening in February.

In another decade we’ll have either decided it’s important to support reporters or we’ll all be force fed tripe from the pretend hyper successful creatures who dominate social channels.

Grew up with the LA Times. Became a journalist myself. My toddler son used to go out and get the newspaper for grandpa every morning when we visited home. Seeing all these peers cut loose from my hometown paper really cuts deep.

@LogTechEric Not to mention the godless fiddles y'all play in the south.

FWIW, the kids of every single family in our elite coastal heathen circle in northern Va play at least one instrument, while most of us parents played zero growing up. But yes, we’ve turned our backs on religion and that’s why there are no pianos anymore.

Forcing narrative from every possible conceivable angle.

@MarkSzakonyi @LogTechEric

@LogTechEric I'm hearing $1 million per FEU.

Who says the Red Sea crisis isn’t having an impact on the TP? joc.com/article/trans-…

@ShipBrief All the news that fits.

@jonathanbmayo So sorry to hear. A legend of the lens lost. Love and condolences to you both.

@JamesTurner37 Just in time to make Christmas even more expensive for a doting grandparent.

My ninth grandchild was born this morning. 🥂

@greg_knowler You weren't there man.

Making people poorer to bring down inflation is a bit like destroying a village to save it

@_captainscience Okay, I get why you would relate to one of those similes. But the other.... I mean why would you even try?

Just put fleece bags on my citrus trees. Like trying to put a condom on a very small cactus. Or tights on after swimming.

@mercoglianos If they can cantilever the engine and accommodation block from the bow section without any signs hogging, that looks like a well-built ship.

If you wonder why China leads the world in shipbuilding...Here is Your Sign! I mean they launched a ship from a dirt pile!

@MikeSchuler Now, minus 20 minutes.

@_captainscience To be fair, nothing heals stupidity like a correct dose of amanita phalloides.

I just had a brief conversation with a man that ended like this: Me: What is it that you do? Him: I'm an engineer Me: Ohhhhh, that makes a lot of sense. Do you know about Dunning and Kruger? Him: No, what about them? Me: Look them up. Apparently there are mushrooms that heal..

@cmroberson06 Every conference, every corporate visit... Oh, a pen, that might come in handy...

Cleaning out a storage bin and hit the mother lode of pens...

I guess everyone has different dining preferences.

@_captainscience I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go past.

Is leaving starting homework until the very last minute a thing that lots of people do/did?

free to read: Houthis said to have hijacked an Israeli-owned car carrier Galaxy Leader. Once again global trade trajectories need to be recalibrated on the basis of geopolitics lloydslist.com/LL1147314/Hout…

@_captainscience Sneaked in to just clutch victory from the jaws of defeat.

Overwhelming win for British Gas.

@ShipBrief When I were a lad using a full stop in place of a comma was discouraged. I'd settle for an ellipsis but this is just wrong. I despair at the quality of today's public schools.

@seatsixtyone Or R as Royaume Uni

Tbh, it’s when we’re listed under E as Egyesült Királyság that causes me the most bother…