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Amazing Taste |
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New lyrics for an ancient hymn. |
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Elizabethan Age |
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On why the Second Elizabeth's era might be just as great as the First Elizabeth's. |
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Embarcadero Proposal (February 1991) |
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If US bombs could tear down the Iraqi infrastructure so easily, why not let them do the same for the useless Embarcadero Freeway? |
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Fin de Siecle |
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Will the fin of the Twentieth Century be the finest ever? Here's the main competition from the Second Millennium... |
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General Gough |
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A fanciful biography of the Imperial Englishman for whom Gough Street was named. |
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Handy Phrases with Which to Cope with Twentieth Century Life |
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Smart remarks in the political context appropriate to seven languages. |
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Mobutu Letter |
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Advice to President-for-Life Mobutu as to how to lead a heroic counterattack against the rebels. |
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News from 1535 |
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Clippings of the Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, and Architectural Digest from the year 1535. |
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The Servants' Century Off |
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All our lives, it seems, we've had to do our own cooking and cleaning. Not to worry, the servants will be back soon. You see, they like to take a century off every 550 years or so... |
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Thursday, August 32, 2000 |
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Why should Leap Day always be in February, when it's so cold? Why not give August the extra day, once in a millennium? |
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The Treaty of Calais |
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Explains why English cookery is so inferior to French cuisine: it was all a conspiracy between George IV and Louis XVIII. |
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What a Friend We Have in Cheeses |
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Three stanzas in praise of cheese. |
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