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• One of these things is not like the others

  By tigtog on 2008-04-23 • ( 2 )

  Hmmm, which one could it be? * Wilt Chamberlain, Basketball Hall of Fame inductee * Musashimaru (born Fiamalu Penitani), Sumo grand champion, highest level * Danica Patrick, Indy car driver, first-time winner If you guessed that it’s the woman who… Read More ›

• Gratuitous Hurry-Up-Auntie with that new-season-of-Doctor-Who blogging

  By tigtog on 2008-04-22 • ( 5 )

  Beppie mailed me links to these a few weeks ago (and I forgot to do anything with them!), promotional shots of the scrumptious David Tennant looking all fierce and cool for the just-started 4th season of Doctor Who in the… Read More ›

• One more for the tigtog-is-a-freak category

  By tigtog on 2008-04-22 • ( 8 )

  You are a dog Or maybe you are a mosquito, you certainly can’t be human. The highest pitched ultrasonic mosquito ringtone that I can hear is 21.1kHz Find out which ultrasonic ringtones you can hear!

• The FLDS polygamy and statutory rape farm

  By tigtog on 2008-04-21 • ( 10 )

  Haven’t blogged anything about this, so this is just a quick hit. There’s lots of blogging about this around. AP: Texas polygamist sect is accused of indoctrinating girls SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) — Girls in the west Texas polygamous sect… Read More ›

• 7 decades of McNasty McCain

  By tigtog on 2008-04-21 • ( 3 )

  I hadn’t realised until I read this article in the Washington Post that Senator McCain was given the McNasty nickname due to his aggressiveness as a schoolboy. The article details how his temper has manifested on many occasions since his… Read More ›

• Eccentric Eye on the World: Moustache and Beard Championship

  By tigtog on 2008-04-21 • ( 1 )

  Footage via Reuters, of men competing for the most “extravagant” look (no journalist commentary) at a competition organised by the Eastern Bavarian Beard and Moustache Club. Jury member Thomas Zauener explained that there were “different categories: natural beards, moustaches and… Read More ›

• Roundup: 2020 summit

  By tigtog on 2008-04-21 • ( 5 )

  There hasn’t been as much coverage of the summit around the blogs as I expected (not yet anyway). LP has had plenty of threads, of which I think the standout is this one. TimT suggests that the photo of Rudd… Read More ›

• APOD: Running Messier’s Marathon

  By tigtog on 2008-04-20 • ( 3 )

  When I retire I’m going to become an astronomy geek. Explanation for the photo below from APOD. Image Credit: Amir Hossein Abolfath

• The Metropolitan Opera Live in HD: La Bohème at Paddo’s Chauvel Cinema

  By tigtog on 2008-04-19 • ( 5 )

  Conductor Nicola Luisotti; Production Franco Zeffirelli; Angela Gheorghiu, Ainhoa Arteta, Ramón Vargas, Ludovic Tézier, Quinn Kelsey, Oren Gradus, Paul Plishka Despite our ill-health, mr tog and I managed to drag ourselves to pick up our tickets (booked weeks ago) and… Read More ›

• Apropros of a discussion taking place somewhere else entirely

  By tigtog on 2008-04-19 • ( 7 )

  Sorry. In-joke. Forget you saw anything, including the couple of revisions of this short post. Instead: what do you think of this list of 50 Greatest Comedy Sketches of All Time? (Via sweetmachine at Shapely Prose.)