Humour - The Parnassian (Page 21)

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I am not hinting at anything, but this is Prince Charles, heir to the British crown, and Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, chairman of the Rothschilds' international investment bank

As Ursula the sea witch used to say, body language, ha!

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Parisian Ladies in Winter Toilettes: An English Caricature of French Fashion of the Early Nineteenth Century

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Greta Thunberg Banned from Venice for 48 Hours After Dyeing the Water of the Grand Canal Green

And why, pray, forty-eight hours? It might at least have been two years, with twelve strokes of a willow switch on the *forbidden word thrown in. And make her scrub the canals for a couple of weeks besides

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Guys, This Can't Possibly Be True, It's Obvious at Once

Guys, this can't possibly be true, it's obvious at once. The astrophysicist Avi Loeb, known as the author of theories about interstellar objects, joked that Kim Kardashian had been "invited" to join the research team studying the comet 3I/Atlas, after she dared to

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Given these figures, the real Marina Abramović performance is trying to justify to yourself the price of a ticket to her show

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A Victorian funeral parlour for dolls, the indispensable addition to any dolls' town

A Victorian funeral parlour for dolls, the indispensable addition to any dolls' town. Now that is a hobby!

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And this joke is three years old, mind you

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Is this the Mandela effect already, or just universal forgetfulness?

Is this the Mandela effect already, or just universal forgetfulness? How is one to explain why everyone is discussing Cheburashka's Jewish nationality, and, above all, discussing it as the original invention of a State Duma deputy? Yet the man merely voiced an old joke from LiveJournal that everyone

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New York's odious mayor and his wife have already managed to publish a children's book about themselves

New York's odious mayor and his wife have already managed to publish a children's book about themselves. How sweet they are, how sugary and cartoonish. They tell the story of their wedding in the subway. On the one hand, they go on constructing the myth of

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"Name?"

"Teresa Cristina Maria Josefa Gaspar Baltazar Melchiora Januária Rosalía Lucía Francisca de Assis Isabel Francisca de Paula de Alcântara Donata Bonosa Andreia de Avelino Rita Ludgarda Gertrudes Venância Tadea Spiridione Roca Matilde." "Can you make it shorter?" "Teresa Cristina." "Patronymic?" "Princess

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Gandalf the White Vanquished Sauron; Gandalf the Terry-Towelling Saves Middle-earth from a Draught

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From the new del Toro film one gets the sense that he has been waiting a good while for the chance to show off his new horrors to the lads and say: look what a monster I've got, and what a character!

The critics leave the auditorium deep in thought. On the one hand, sound handmade workmanship in the old style; might the horror not lie precisely in all this beauty being free of any digital footprint? On the other, some find there is rather too much feeling for a story about