ff6a27a
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So that's when I came up with the most ridiculous plan since I'd decided to take a witness statement from a ghost. It was a plan so stupid that even Baldrick would have rejected it out of hand.
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peter-grant
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Ben Aaronovitch |
93e7f76
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From then on, it was even twistier B-roads through a country so photgenically rural that I half expected to meet Bilbo Baggins around the next corner - providing he'd taken to driving a Nissan Micra.
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countryside
foxglove-summer
peter-grant
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Ben Aaronovitch |
795750e
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Bollocks, I thought, or testiculi or possibly testiculos if we were using the accusative.
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bollocks
peter-grant
testivuli
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Ben Aaronovitch |
ecd59bf
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Or as my dad always says: it only becomes a social problem when the working man joins in.
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hypocrisy
lower-class
peter-grant
rivers-of-london
social-criticism
social-problems
working-class
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Ben Aaronovitch |
6ece809
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I was pleased to see that even back in the glory days of the Folly people left their mugs of tea on their magical textbooks.
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peter-grant
tea
the-folly
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Ben Aaronovitch |
73fc083
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"Abigail stared suspiciously at Lesley. "Why are you wearing a mask?" she asked. "Because my face fell off," said Lesley. Abigail considered this for a moment and then nodded. "Okay," she said."
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peter-grant
rivers-of-london
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Ben Aaronovitch |
226561d
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She was spontaneously created by the midichlorians,' I said. Both women gave me blank looks. 'Never mind.
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humor
jokes
peter-grant
star-wars
star-wars-reference
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Ben Aaronovitch |
f2f1b19
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"Then Beverley Brook stepped onto the footplate and pointed a shotgun straight at the Queen's head - I recognised the Purdey from my trunk. It was nice to see it getting an airing. Beverley herself was wearing an oversized leather jerkin and jeans. Her dreads had been tied into a plait down her back and a pair of antique leather and brass goggles were pushed up onto her brow.
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foxglove-summer
funny
peter-grant
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Aaronovitch Ben |
1d1fe55
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Fuck me,' I said out loud, 'I'm in fairyland.
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humor
peter-grant
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Ben Aaronovitch |