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Captain Haddock from the Tintin comics and his dislike of tourism
"Travel? What next? I hate tourism, the industry of shipping people who would be better off at home to places that would be better off without them." Captain Haddock really is my favourite comic-book hero of all time. He lives in his castle of white stone, recalls
NB! · Faith · Art · Humour
St Matthew's cat has become so replete with knowledge that she seems to have been living for a hundred trillion billion years on trillions upon trillions of planets just like this one, you understand?
NB! · Moscow · Observations · Society · Paris · Humour
Paving on rue du Temple in Paris compared with street improvement in Moscow
Paris paving on the rue du Temple sends envious greetings to Moscow's street improvements. Whenever I feel like complaining about some oversight of Sobyanin's, I remember that somewhere in the heart of Europe there is Anne Hidalgo, and, you know, all my discontent vanishes as if
NB! · Cinema · Observations · Humour
It feels as though Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 "Romeo and Juliet" cast not Leonard Whiting as Romeo but Zac Efron of 2008
NB! · Books · Observations · Humour
I doubt I am the only one to have run into the problem: the state and size of the home library are such that no book can be found in it, so it is easier to buy the edition you need than to hunt for it at home
Cinema · Pop Culture · Humour
When You Feel Like a Happy Walrus
Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, 1962
Archive · Books · Humour
"Pull all the faces you like behind my back; my backside is looking at you"
Gustave Flaubert to Louise Colet
NB! · Observations · Humour
The author compares the time before leaving home to the thickness of an old book
How soon shall I leave the house? In about this long
NB! · Archive · Monarchies · Observations · Humour
Nicholas II and George V on photo cards where they swap places
Nicholas II and George V are such fun, swapping places in identical photographs to confuse everyone around them: the Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen of their day. I just cannot decide whether this is already "Papasha from the Posters" or still "Two: Me and My Shadow"
Observations · Society · Nature · Humour
Some do not believe that a mere few thousand years ago people, covered in hair and clad in a pitiful semblance of clothing or none at all, could run about with sticks, huddle into herds and display behaviour of the most thoroughly animal kind, explaining
Some do not believe that a mere few thousand years ago people, covered in hair and clad in a pitiful semblance of clothing or none at all, could run about with sticks, huddle into herds and display behaviour of the most thoroughly animal kind, explaining it by saying that man
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