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Sounds unusual, yes. The usual explanations for such a phenomenon would be that he had just recently joined the club, or some other strong player had recently left it. Or that the club itself had been founded only a short time before. Re sporting prowess, I vaguely remember reading somewhere once t...

According to David Crystal the principle reason why starting sentences with a conjunction because distasteful was playground banter became a great annoyance. Dropping conjunctions at the start of sentences was one of many minor changes. Crystal claims teachers invoked that change for the wrong reas...

John McKenna wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 09, 2021 6:32 pm

There was a time when school teachers of English in the UK told their pupils not to begin a sentence with a conjunction, but that rule was not followed by writers of English literature.

Nor by the translators who produced the King James Bible.

From the 1975 single Art For Art's Sake by 10cc (written by Graham Gouldman and Eric Stewart):

Money talks so listen to it
Money talks to me
Anyone can understand it
Money can't be beat Oh no ....

Decided this was a more appropriate place than Deaths and Obits. The Watergate so-called mastermind (not much of a one, seeing he and all his people got caught) has just passed on. Something of a chess-player, he whiled away part of his jail time playing both OTB and correspondence, and once comment...

Some pretty ancient stuff to be seen by following the YouTube link given here.

Many employers at that time had rules regarding husband and wife working together. Yes. I'm a bit hazy now about the details, but when I was still living in the UK I heard about about one woman denied a promotion because it would have brought her into the same part of the organisation as her husban...

Thanks, John. I've added my bits - hope readers find something of interest there. I don't bother about typos and things these days unless they're really gross. Plenty of other folk around who like to point out that sort of stuff.

John - if you can enable comments on the BCN piece, there's one or two things I could add.

.... all those IQ tests we were forced to do as kids were all flawed on this type of question. English humorist Paul Jennings once made a similar point, citing this question from H J Eysenck's Know Your Own IQ : 2 7 24 77 ? Jennings reasoned "24 = 2x12; 77 = 7x11; so the next ought to be 24x10, or ...

English humorist Paul Jennings once made a similar point, citing this question from H J Eysenck's Know Your Own IQ : Was that from a piece called "I do not like you IQ" by any chance? I remember being in hysterics reading that on a District Line train between Ravenscourt Park and Richmond at some p...

Kevin Williamson wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 12, 2021 12:20 pm

This one can definitely be solved by a human brain!

What's the next number in this sequence:

149, 162, 536, 496, 481,???

Ha! Got it. Almost at light-speed.

Home. (Pronounced "Hume", as in the 14th Earl of Home, who became prime minister as Sir Alec Douglas-Home.) That is another really clever answer. Indeed it is, but "Hume" is not the universal pronunciation of "Home" as a proper noun. Home House is an upmarket private members' club in Marylebone whi...

.... all those IQ tests we were forced to do as kids were all flawed on this type of question. English humorist Paul Jennings once made a similar point, citing this question from H J Eysenck's Know Your Own IQ : 2 7 24 77 ? Jennings reasoned "24 = 2x12; 77 = 7x11; so the next ought to be 24x10, or ...

Don't forget ig- - a very specific case.