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Posted on October 4, 2019

What a Pity!

Trees that the Boche felled accross the road at Peronne
“Cut down an avenue! What a pity! Does not it make you think of Cowper? ‘Ye fallen avenues, once more I mourn your fate unmerited.'”

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The ancient Egyptians, incidentally, treated arthritis with electric catfish—or, as the hieroglyphics call them, "angry catfish". Remarkably, electric catfish can be trained to stun on cue, which seems like something coastguards and river police should be looking into before a supervillain does.
—The Ambition of a Potato

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