Claire is right. This is weird.
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Damian
08May04 — 0
Meet The Teacher
Andrew is an American who lives in Japan and teaches English. He invites his new students to introduce themselves in writing. Here are one or two of the responses.
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Step Backwards
In the latest Spectator Rachel Johnson reflects on the remake of The Stepford Wives and the progress of women’s liberation since the original film was released. Even members of The Spectator‘s natural constituency on the Right have been mourning its decline lately, and, sure enough, the rest of the magazine contains a lot of rubbish. […]
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Institutional Vanity
I no longer receive invitations to participate in Reader’s Digest prize draws, but this week I was asked, for the second year running, if I would like to appear in Who’s Who In Science And Engineering. I have no illusions about my professional standing, so my instinct was again to treat the letter as a […]
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Aesthetics
Pablo Picasso: creator of the World’s most expensive painting; engineer of the World’s least convincing comb-across.
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Two Years Is A Long Time In Showbusiness
“These uploaders supplying millions of files on a daily basis are having a negative impact on … the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of songwriters, musicians [and] artists” — Hilary Rosen, CEO of the Record Industry Association of America, the trade group that represents the U.S. recording industry, 24Oct02 “The world’s top five music companies […]
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Die Laughing At The UN
Judith neatly joins my two postings so far today with this piece in The Weekly Standard by (Jewish comic) Larry Miller. He’s writing about a recent comedy statement from (black diplomat) Kofi Annan. [Surely Miller deserves a better Website that this?]
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PooterGeek’s Three Most Hated Countries In The World PopQuiz
In descending order of international detestation: You are an Arab-Israeli double agent and have been playing each side against the other for months, squirrelling away your profits in a Swiss bank account. Your cover has been blown and you are on the run. The door to your hiding place is being beaten down by armed […]
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The Jewish Entertainment Conspiracy (cont.)
Gail A Stocker, one of LA’s leading comedy agents, offers humour for (almost) every minority, but, we ask, in what proportions does she take it on?: (Roseanne Barr, Garry Shandling, Jerry Seinfield…) total Jewish comics: 31 (US popn: 6m) (Arsenio Hall, Sinbad…) total African-American comics: 20 (US popn: 30m) total Catholic comics: 3 (US popn: […]
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Somewhere To Hang Your Hat
Leasey says I should be able to come up with something “dry and witty” to go with this. When I saw the X-ray, the best I could do was “ouch“.
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The Price Of Groceries Is Eternal Vigilance
My officemate’s brother, Paul Wixon, uses sharp eyes and digital photography to bring us his Bizarre Product Swaps page.
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Best Memorial Service Speech Ever
Pat Tillman‘s brother addresses a mourning nation: “Pat isn’t with God. He’s fucking dead. He wasn’t religious. So thank you for your thoughts, but he’s fucking dead.” [courtesy of Fark and SFGate.com]
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Difficult Father
Over at Brian Micklethwait’s education ‘Blog, a recent entry ends with a tale of a man who defines the phrase “demanding parent”.
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The Real Master Of The Universe
The vast majority of the overpaid ninnies who “manage” active British investment funds and US mutual funds are shit at their jobs. It takes special abilities to underperform blind indexes both when markets rise and when markets fall, but 82% of UK funds have done that over the last twenty years. To add insult, they […]
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Young Men In Spikes
My dad warned me—and I hope Auriol isn’t offended if I write this—but the BBC documentary about the four-minute mile that I ‘Blogged about last week (and my dad kindly recorded for me) sounded in places like a P G Wodehouse spoof. Apparently, after the race in Oxford, the leading runners were driven at top […]
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No Smoke Without The Mirror
I got miserable and self-righteous about stories of US abuse of prisoners in Iraq last week, but now I’m just puzzled at similar reports about UK troops. It’s too strange seeing anti-war paper The Guardian fisking anti-war paper The Mirror by letting its picture editor loose on the Mirror‘s photos of supposed nastiness. Meanwhile, in […]
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My Kind Of Democrat
If this New York Times piece is right— “John Kerry is doing exactly what he should be doing right now. He is in a post-primary molting season. He’s emerging from the shadow of Howard Dean and becoming more like the policy twin of Joe Lieberman: a pro-trade, fiscally conservative centrist Democrat who is willing to […]
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But Now I See
I’m running to Cambridge rail station with a rucksack on my back and a suit bag on my forearm. I’m going to Balliol Medical Society’s annual dinner and, as usual when I’m setting off anywhere by train, I’m late. This tends to happen when you think of yourself as living next to the platform. It’s […]
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The Wrong Kind of Sex Icon
Another trawl through my referrer logs reveals that I am sixth highest hit on MSN search for: “gay personal naked webpages pics“ Time to put on my “Why assume I’m homosexual?” badge again. And you lot can just knob off to the “Naked Protesters” ‘Blog. PooterGeek is a chaste and sophisticated journal of culture.
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He’s Not The Messiah; He’s A Very Naughty Boy!
Blimey, Fidel’s been so bad lately, even the BBC is being rude about him.
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Lancashire Hotpot
Claims and counterclaims are being lobbed back and forth between the army and the tabloids about UK troops being involved (or not) in torture of Iraqis. Meanwhile Claire notes a good article by Andy McNab in the Telegraph.
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Jokism
[edited from The Motley Fool] AMERICAN JOKISM: You have two jokes They share a huge apartment in New York which they pay for by working in a coffee shop One is straight in real life, but gay on TV They were both written by a room full of Harvard graduates FRENCH JOKISM: You have two […]
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Too Depressing For Words
The revelations about abuse of prisoners by Coalition forces in Iraq are just grim. I should be making noises about their scale relative to pre-war Ba’athist crimes, about their being debated worldwide rather than hidden from any sight, about the court-martials that will be faced by (some of) the perpetrators. It wouldn’t change the crimes. […]
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Camp Grenada
One of the top Google hits that brings people to PooterGeek is “Hello Mudder, Hello Fadder“. Ron Nilson posted a new comment to the relevant PooterGeek entry yesterday asking what classical piece Alan Sherman’s novelty record was based on. My dad provided the answer. It’s Ponchielli’s “Dance of the Hours” from La Gioconda. And I […]
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Too Posh To Push?
Having listened to two radio discussions about this on Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning respectively, I wanted to ‘Blog at greater length about this story, but I haven’t the time at the moment. I wanted to include a few links for the frighteningly large number of friends (and relatives) I have who might be interested, […]
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Auntie Drools Over Apple
When does journalism become boosting? When the BBC reports on Apple, says The Inquirer
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Normal To The Surface
For the past four days I have been at the the Cambridge Centre for Mathematical Sciences, a lovely new collection of ultra-modern pagoda-style buildings housing the best maths department(s) in the country. I was attending a workshop on protein structure (and writing it up for a journal). The workshop, incidentally, was the best scientific meeting […]
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Blackout
A lot of people are suggesting that American Idol, the US version of Pop Idol talent show, is racist because the black singers on the show have been consistently voted last by the viewers this season. Anyone who believes black people are naturally talented performers of popular music should be made to listen to my […]
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