“Howdy! It’s me, Pizza Rat! You may remember me as the heartwarming if somewhat unhygienic meme from 2015, back in the days before… some stuff happened. Don’t ask me what though, the average lifespan for a rat is about 2 years[…]

Which island or island group:
1 Gained psittacine relief?
2 Was discovered on New Year’s Day?
3 Had an Imperial association with an eminent MHK?
4 Take their name from a mainland feature 450km distant?
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1 Which entomologist was lost in the Grimpen Mire?
2 Who drowned, aged 29, when his schooner, Don Juan, sank?
3 Who succumbed to the whirlpools of the Seine on June 7 1832?
4 Who fell fatally into a weeping brook from a broken willow branch?
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Into the top-twenty-verse, as all the cool kids would say. A lot of good films here (a few I cared for less too but hey, opinions are like arseholes right?) THis is where the films I were worried wouldn’t make it, made it – the years best[…]

Which seat of learning is named after:
1 A canonised bishop?
2 A Glaswegian fur-trader?
3 A slave trader and corrupt Indian administrator?
4 An excommunicated Friend and telegraph pioneer?
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This is a document of my album-a-day listening project. Each entry originally comes out as a tinyletter and subscribers to that get intros and miscellanea as well as the LP reviews. When a new letter goes out, the previous letter goes up here. A fine[…]

Which hospital:
1 Was a beneficiary of the South Sea Bubble?
2 Recalls an alternative title of Princess Diana?
3 Was built as a memorial to a solicitor’s wife at Moor Edge?
4 Was renamed after a Welsh surgeon and a pioneering English nurse?
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There’s the Mars Volta and there’s the Mars Volta Group, and it’s important to understand the difference between the two. The Mars Volta is the partnership of Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala, and the Mars Volta Group is the evol[…]

1 Who was allowed a gill of beer a day?
2 Who viewed his domain upon Arkindale Side?
3 With what birth defect was Greene’s corvid assassin afflicted?
4 Whose gait was likened to that of a gentleman with exceedingly tight footwear?
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1 What was reduced by 20 in 1967?
2 What urges adhesion to the desk on terra firma?
3 What prohibited shoes or boots with spikes or springs?
4 What postulates that individuals in warmer climates have longer limbs?
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