John Finnemore @JohnFinnemore
Makes his own fun. Although not very often here, now they've turned it into a haunted fairground, with a cross scratched on the gate to remind you to keep away. johnfinnemore.substack.com Substack, instead. Joined February 2009-
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The Intrepid Rabbits Turned the Emperor's Flank johnfinnemore.substack.com/p/the-intrepid…
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Huge news from @unbounders today - the new puzzle by @JohnFinnemore (the first person to solve #CainsJawbone in 80 years) now has a name and a prize attached... 10 murders; 100 pages; 100 images. Easy, right? (It is not).
Huge news from @unbounders today - the new puzzle by @JohnFinnemore (the first person to solve #CainsJawbone in 80 years) now has a name and a prize attached... 10 murders; 100 pages; 100 images. Easy, right? (It is not).
Venturing back on Twitter just for the day… to announce the title and superb cover, by the great @tomgauld , of my new murder mystery puzzle, published this year by @unbounders and available to preorder here: unbound.com/books/untitled… youtu.be/_OfadcV7Hks?si…
I mean, this is perfectly true; but rather makes my point about why I don’t come here very much any more. I used to be able to post a simple thread without it appearing in an apparently random order…
I mean, this is perfectly true; but rather makes my point about why I don’t come here very much any more. I used to be able to post a simple thread without it appearing in an apparently random order…
The thing about painting someone’s face to look ‘like a diplodocus’ is that none of the things about a diplodocus that make a diplodocus look like a diplodocus are on the diplodocus’s face.
“Ah, hello. Do you have a book called ‘Harry Whittaker Atlas The Story Of Pa Salt’, by Lucinda Riley? No? How about ‘The Story of Pa Salt Lucinda Riley’ by Harry Whittaker Atlas? No? Alright, let’s try…”
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Every episode of Good Omens (and some other TV shows) in 45 seconds:
Toy makers HAVE to stop putting giraffes on things for kids. I don’t know what noise it makes buddy and I suspect even if I knew I don’t have the apparatus to make it happen
Had a massive row with my gf and now she won't talk to me. She's hiding in her bowl, just behind the little castle.
“Mate! Mate! What are you THINKING of? You can’t put the tiger in with the mice! They’ll rip him to shreds! Come on! This is zookeeping 101!!”
Boris Johnson being brought down by the "Priviliges" Committee is a bit like if Aquaman drowned.
First they came for the mimes, and I said nothing, which was a mistake.
*gestures to my unmown yard* "I'm choosing to let my yard grow wild, to help the pollinators." *waves at a stack of dirty dishes* "This, too, is for the pollinators." *trips over a pile of dirty laundry" "Pollinators."
Brian Cox taking every opportunity to denigrate method acting – the favoured technique of on-screen son Jeremy Strong, a character who desperately wants to impress his emotionally cruel father – is, wonderfully, very method.
Brian Cox doubles down on his hatred of Method acting: “I don’t put up with all that American sh*t. I’m sorry. All that sort of ‘I think, therefore I feel.’ Just do the job." variety.com/2023/tv/news/b…
The grill with the pearl earrings
Some of y'all tweet in an idiom you couldn't pull off in real life, and I am here for it.